Sorrow

Sorrow

Luci Shaw

How granular they feel—grief and regret, arriving, as they do,
in the sharp particularities of distress. Inserting themselves—
cunning, intricate, subversive—into our discourse.

In the long night, grievances seem to multiply. Old dreams
mingling with new. Disappointment and regret bludgeon
the soul, your best imaginings bruised, your hopes ragged.

Yet wait, watch. From the skylight the room is filling with
soft early sun, slowly sifting its light on the bed, on your head,
a shower of fine particles. How welcome. And how reliable.

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Luci Shaw
Poet & Editor

Luci was the co-founder and later president of Harold Shaw Publishers, and since 1988 has been a Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada. She is a charter member of the Chrysostom Society of Writers, and is the author of fourteen volumes of poetry including Angels Everywhere, The Generosity, Eye of the Beholder & Sea Glass: New & Selected Poems (WordFarm, 2016). Shaw has also authored several non-fiction prose books, including Water My Soul: Cultivating the Interior Life (Zondervan) and The Crime of Living Cautiously (InterVarsity).

Photography by Jonas Jaeken