One Week a Widow

One Week a Widow

Amy Imbody

for Robin, Sunday Sept. 24th, 2023

One week a widow: this seismic shift
has set me paddling hard. Yet, I drift
through my familiar landscape: my home -
now unfamiliar, strange, and unknown:
rivers backward flow; the oak uproots;
blossoms do not precede their full fruits;
wine is drunk before the grape is ripe.
Though embraced, I am alone tonight.

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Amy Imbody
Poet & Founder

Amy has published poems and essays in First Things magazine, in her book Wind from the Sea and many more. She is the founder and president of the Center for Redemptive Education

Photography by محمد سجة