Ode to Elijah’s Laughter
Your laughter sounds
like the forgiveness
I have never been able
to offer myself.
Whole, pure, and healing.
A song of redemption—
Raise my right hand
over your heart and I might
leave it there, so I can feel
where your joy is born
and name that place
what we have no language
to contain.
By day, Julia Bonadies is an 8th-grade English teacher at Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Middle, and by night she is a professional writing tutor at Manchester Community College. Her work most recent work can be found in The Chronicle, Halfway Down the Stairs, and NEATE’s The Leaflet.
