An Unfolding Journey
Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP- An Unfolding Journey
in memory of Denise Levertov—poet, activist, convert
reverent as sacrament your eyes spilling into each word . . . then every poem unfolded its journey as if through a forest dark and green or discovering an ocean green and dark before dawn and you standing reverent before your arrest as if in a meadow green with wild flowers: the concrete the barbed wire the fence that, too, was an unfolding journey like a forest, an ocean, a meadow green dark waking slowly to sunrise [End Page 116]
Sr. Lou Ella Hickman, IWBS, is a member of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament. She has been a teacher on all levels, and has worked in two libraries. Presently she is a freelance writer as well as a spiritual director. Her poems and articles have been published in numerous magazines as well as a poem in After Shocks: Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events and in Down to the Dark River. She recently published her first book of poetry, she: robed and wordless (Press 53, 2015. slehickman@iwbscc.org
