Voices
Annabelle Moseley is the author of nine books, including the double volume A Ship to Hold the World and The Marionette's Ascent (Wiseblood Books.) She teaches theology and literature at St. Joseph's Seminary and St. Joseph's College in New York. She lives on Long Island with her husband and children and blogs at DesertBread.org.
Arts & CulturePoetry
for A.B.
Those childhood nights I ate at your table,
where life's mysteries were broken and shared—
I studied the blue willow plates you set each night.
Even during the worst winter,
my fork swept potatoes, gravy, bits of savory meat
and uncovered a story.
Each night I told myself a different tale, cast in the familiar pattern—
there were pagodas, fences, shining waterways
and a boat with a figure searching the horizon.
