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The Common Milkweed

The Common Milkweed Poetry Anglican Theological Review 2021, Vol. 103(1) 94 The Common Milkweed © The Author(s) 2021 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/993024 DOI: 10.1177/0003328621993024 journals.sagepub.com/home/atr When there seems little cause for hope, I contemplate the Common Milkweed, seeds rising from the bleached cracked pod, a feathered cloud that, weightless, lifts, shimmering in autumn haze, to drift on tiny silken wings into the ragged wild earth where, through dark days, seeds bear within the evidence of things unseen; young leaves, life-force for butterflies, the buoyant floss, infusions steeped from roots and shoots to calm the lungs, to cure the cough, gifts held in such uncommon source, waiting, hidden, to spring forth. SARAH ROSSITER Sarah Rossiter is the author of a novel, The Human Season; a short story collection, Beyond This Bitter Air; and a poetry chapbook, Natural Life with No Parole. Her poetry has appeared in a num- ber of journals including The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, UU World, The Christian Century, and First Things. She is a spiritual director and lives in Concord, Massachusetts. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

The Common Milkweed

Rossiter, Sarah
Anglican Theological Review , Volume 103 (1): 1 – Mar 24, 2021
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Poetry Anglican Theological Review 2021, Vol. 103(1) 94 The Common Milkweed © The Author(s) 2021 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/993024 DOI: 10.1177/0003328621993024 journals.sagepub.com/home/atr When there seems little cause for hope, I contemplate the Common Milkweed, seeds rising from the bleached cracked pod, a feathered cloud that, weightless, lifts, shimmering in autumn haze, to drift on tiny silken wings into the ragged wild earth where, through dark days, seeds bear within the evidence of things unseen; young leaves, life-force for butterflies, the buoyant floss, infusions steeped from roots and shoots to calm the lungs, to cure the cough, gifts held in such uncommon source, waiting, hidden, to spring forth. SARAH ROSSITER Sarah Rossiter is the author of a novel, The Human Season; a short story collection, Beyond This Bitter Air; and a poetry chapbook, Natural Life with No Parole. Her poetry has appeared in a num- ber of journals including The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, UU World, The Christian Century, and First Things. She is a spiritual director and lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

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