consider the paradoxes like lilies of the field salt that flavors and seed that grows were the good news of His kingdom now consider some of the parables of an earthy realm: mercury the metal that pours or perhaps the iceberg the mountain that floats then there is water shapeshifter into liquid, solid or gas finally consider ourselves the smallest of parables yet clothed, seasoned and growing into thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold
Sister Lou Ella Hickman’s poems and articles have appeared in numerous magazines and journals as well as four anthologies. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2017 and in 2020. Her first book of poetry entitled she: robed and wordless was published in 2015. (Press 53)
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