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“Healing Prayer”
Words by @girlwithtomatoes. Illustrations by @caolark
Thank you so much for letting me bring another of your beautiful poems to visual life, Sallie! You are amazing ❤️
Thanks@caolark for illustrating another of my poems! I love what you did with it! Yay collaboration!
walking home from favorite cafe:
a small boy rides a two-wheeler,
smoothly, but for the clomping up-downs
of the uneven panes of sidewalk cement,
lifted skyward by tree roots.
these same sidewalks
have hurt my biking butt
many a time. i always
try to bike on the road.
but a kid can’t do that.
his dad trails behind, jogging.
“you’re doing a great job buddy!”
the boy says:
“no i’m not!”
they leave me in their wake,
thinking, why am i so
often like the small
biking boy,
the chastising voice
in the midst of encouragement?
why does he talk to himself
that way?
why do i?
sallie mccann
