'The footprints of Lazarus still blaze in desert dust, waiting to spark fire in imagination.' Photo: by Derek Thomson on Unsplash

Poem by Dana Littlepage Smith

Come to my house

Poem by Dana Littlepage Smith

by Dana Littlepage Smith 5th July 2024

Some would number us
in lost accounting piles:
a wind toppled abacus of old Quakers.

Our vestments of truth may be
frayed to lace, the burlap of equality
clotted with centuries of mistakes.