Among Wildflowers

Among Wildflowers

Marjorie Maddox

“... only silence can express my prayer.”
- Saint Therese of Lisieux

The air
too still
for incense
and proclamations,
the un-wild
wildflowers
pray their Plain Jane
rosary of rain
across hushed fields
of nothing much,
or, in the shadow of woods
and whip-poor-wills,
shush whispers too loud
for the breeze,
even words a distraction
for praise. Yes,
Little Flower, your small petals
say everything.

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Marjorie Maddox
Poet & Professor

Professor of English at Lock Haven University, Marjorie has published 13 collections of poetry—including Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (Yellowglen Prize); Begin with a Question (Paraclete, International Book Award Winner and Illumination Book Award Winner), and Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For (Shanti Arts) She is assistant editor of Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry. Please see www.marjoriemaddox.com 

Photography by Christina Deravedisian