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Friday, March 8, 2019

bread and fire



Bread and fire spread on the mountainside
Bread in our mouths and fire in our hearts, so we ran from him

Landay is a couplet, or running couplets with a 9/13 rhythm.  I fell in love with this form - it invites you to speak with an edge of grief, or anger, or displacement.  Used by many women in regions where I have not walked, have not lived, to speak of things I have not experienced.  Found myself taking the perspective of those who walked away from Jesus in these difficult conversations.

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