Description
- Kind: Perfectbound
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Date Published: April, 2021
- ISBN: 978-1-953252-19-7
Excerpt
Wrung Out
yoga
yin
long air-gulping breaths
and deeply refreshing stretches
that irrigate my insides
like cool water flooding a parched field
and massage muscles
I didn’t even know I had
they wring out my entire skeletal frame
like so much wet laundry
and leave it hanging in the breeze
loose again and free
they spill air and light into my rib cage
so I have more room inside me
to breathe
each time I go
I come away feeling taller
grateful for the gift
of body and breath
2 May
Easter 2018
Santa Fe, NM
Author
Marney Ault Wasserman is a retired Presbyterian pastor, who served congregations in Iowa, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Texas and Arizona over a 38-year ministry. After nearly forty years of ministry and seventy years of living, Marney Wasserman has found her place as a theologian and a poet. She has been writing poetry since the early 1990’s, and between her poems and her preaching, claims her life’s calling as a wordsmith. The writing is an essential part of her practice of a life with God, and has been a source of strength in her current battle with pancreatic cancer. A Thousand Gratitudes is her way of giving back.