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| Issue 25: | 22 Sept. 2024 |
| Poem: | 67 words |
| Visual Art: | Photograph |
By Emily Fortney
cradle
I can hold that— here, let me help what else can I do— it looks really heavy; can I carry that for you year after year family/friend/stranger all the weight of things-not-yours carried into now all the cracked up stacked up no more room to grow up— soul too compacted to root down spilling outside— towards the light unbecoming the tower of broken things
cradle (photograph, 2024), Lake Huron, Treaty #29 Territory.
Copyrighted © by Emily Fortney. All rights reserved.
Image appears here with her permission.
Emily Fortney
is an educator, singer, writer, photographer, and activist living in Treaty #29 Territory (Southwestern Ontario). Her work as an educator has centered around restorative practices and peacekeeping circles. Emily’s writing explores living in right relationship with nature, “other,” and self.
Author’s website, One Luminous Thread:
https://www.oneluminousthread.com/
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