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Francine Walls
NOVELIST & POET


Sr. Antoinette at the Monastery
all the contemplation a meditation within all turned inward, a divina lectio. She said, everything we do must be spiritual, bloom with...


At the Nursing Home
a woman straightens the chair on the patio outside her room. Her Easter lily, parched, sits untended, one bloom left. As I pass she says,...


Departure
His scent lingers near his bedroom door, I sniff the air – a startled deer – then feel his absence in the molted room. #DeathValley...


Farewell
I am turned to ash I want you knowing that I hear your footfalls in the ancient forest, the scream of hawks, the water crazy-mad flowing...


Denial
That momentary disengagement Like the clutch in the old Dodge I think: I have to get a message to her Then: how can I get a message to...
Every living thing
Every living thing. #desert #love #water


Wing-Beat in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado
You have said your good-byes like prayers, used to the words on your lips; your child has the shape of your eyes, but the shade of...


Prism
tosses off colors, swirling, a flutterance – no thought of loss or want or farewell, brilliance for a shilling or a dime or naught...
Communal Life
The cherry trees shake out their fullness the buds all in bloom now absorbing the sound of the blue day. The photographer must be quick...
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