Fields of Light and Stone by Angeline Schellenberg

Author:Angeline Schellenberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
Published: 2020-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

urging

Push, push, more,

push, push, again, more.

Don’t you want to see your baby?

Focus on breathing.

slow in

slow

out

he’s here.

The night,

my hand on Grandma’s heavy arm,

feeling for pulse.

Doesn’t she look asleep?

Aunts and cousins ring the bed

chanting You’re free, you can go,

we love you, you can go.

Do you see the angels?

Focus on breathing.

nothing in

nothing

out

she’s gone.

What Little Things Come to Us

In a box of Grandpa’s sermons:

a day planner gold-stamped 1987

that Grandma used in 1988,

the seven turned into an eight with the stroke

of a pen.

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