Spiritual Mending (To Emily D) – a poem by Alison Jennings

Spiritual Mending (To Emily D)

Daughter, 
	reach into thy heart—
		a poet’s sewing kit—

and using
	but the primal needle
		of humble language

and the liquid
	thread of grace, fix
		your doubts and fears.

Words
	overflow
		your mending box,

the daily pleas
	and psalms
		and silent prayers.

In seclusion,

devote
	deep thoughts
		to what’s felt inside.  

Be not
	uneasy
		with disbelief—

waiting for
	answers, we 

		all dwell in Possibility.

Alison Jennings is a Seattle-based poet who worked as a journalist and accountant and taught English and math in public schools before returning to her first love, poetry.  Since then, she has had a mini-chapbook and over 100 other poems published internationally in numerous journals, including Amethyst Review, Cathexis Northwest Press, Meat for Tea, Mslexia, Poetic Sun, Red Door, Society of Classical Poets, Sonic Boom, Stone Poetry, and The Raw Art Review.  She has also won 3^rd Place/Honorable Mention or been a semi-finalist in several contests.  For more details and links to her published poems, visit her website at https://sites.google.com/view/airandfirepoet/home.