I discovered this poem while preparing to facilitate a monthly gathering of Free Minds writers on Saturday, and it hasn’t left me since. So it became an unplanned addition to the poetry box. And I offer with it the prompt I gave the writers as we wrapped up our time together: What hopes are you carrying from one day to the next?
“So many plans I’ve laid have unraveled
easily as braids beneath my mother’s quick fingers.”
It is neither the first nor the last time that Danusha Lameris has appeared in the poetry box. Her mindful and accessible poems always resonate.