Photo: Artwork made by children at Yearly Meeting.

'Tier on tier, the light gathers, to fall...'

Poem: Our children, all-age Yearly Meeting, 2025

'Tier on tier, the light gathers, to fall...'

by Dana Littlepage Smith 6th June 2025

Tier on tier, the light gathers, to fall

on papers, colours, bodies, scattered. 

Vladimir nuzzles into the milk 

of his red cheeked mother.

Bertha rolls into the body of an elder,

as she sings, Hello! Hallo you! Hello