Praise for Warm Babka

Praise for Warm Babka

Abigail Carroll

At the station café.
The pull and lurch
of the train. Traipsing
gusty blocks
to join a swaying
robed choir, glory 
creased in their brows.
Prayed-over pizza 
on paper plates
at, mango lemonade
cloying sweet—
cheap fuel
for our Sabbath feast.
Bratwurst 
and peppers 
sizzling on the wind,
floating us down
the gum-gobbed stairs
at Broadway and 51st,
hallelujahs ringing in our ears,
the winter sun far gone. 

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Abigail Carroll
Poet & Arts Pastor

Abigail’s books include Habitation of Wonder and A Gathering of Larks: Letters to Saint Francis from a Modern-Day Pilgrim. Her poems have been anthologized in How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope and Between Midnight and Dawn: A Literary Guide to Prayer for Lent, Holy Week, and Eastertide. She serves as pastor of arts and spiritual formation at a local church in Burlington, Vermont. You can read more of her poems here: www.abigail-carroll.com. 

Photography by Logan Armstrong