A Woman Walks

© Mary Saracino


A woman walks in the rain
on a dirt and gravel road
wild daisies among the tasseled
grasses greet her
pods on past-their-prime lupine nod hello
soggy pine and broad-leafed trees
sing a song of greening
as she passes by
Queen Anne gathers dew
on her lacy lap, saturated
blue and purple monk’s hood,
speak to her of dampness
and the humid places deep
inside that cradle the parched sun
arid hours of restless longing
skin brittle with thirst.


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Mary Saracino is a novelist, memoir writer, and poet. Her most recent novel, Heretics: A Love Story (2014) was published by Pearlsong Press. Her novel, The Singing of Swans (Pearlsong Press 2006) was named a 2007 Lambda Literary Awards finalist in the Spirituality category. She co-edited (with Mary Beth Moser) She Is Everywhere! Volume 3: An anthology of writings in womanist/feminist spirituality (iUniverse 2012), which earned the 2013 Enheduanna Award for Excellence in Women-Centered Literature from Sofia University. For more information about Mary, visit www.marysaracino.com and http://www.pearlsong.com/mary_saracino.htm