for an anchoress

for an anchoress

Lou Ella Hickman

your face and name
is lost to this world . . .
someone drops off groceries
from time to time
yet time hinges its doors
on the space that surrounds you . . .
i sent a donation through a friend
who knows you
more than just bananas for Christmas
i tell her
i imagine you pray like breath
wearing silence love’s mantle
for a world so far away
and yet so close

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Sister Lou Ella Hickman, I.W.B.S.
Poet & Spiritual Director

Sister Lou Ella is a widely published poet. She published her first book of poetry in 2015 entitled she: robed and wordless. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. 

Photograph by Jon Tyson