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    Monday, December 19, 2016

    LEAVING ALEPPO

    by Sister Lou Ella Hickman


    An older man was evacuated from a rebel-held neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Thursday, December 15, 2016. Credit Karam Al-Masri/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images via The New York Times, December 15, 2016


    single line they walk
    besieged eyes merely looking forward
    forward one step in front of another
    tired beyond tired
    fatigued beyond fatigued
    weary beyond weary
    their sorrow faceless like themselves
    their burden a city of ruins
    they will carry forward
    in their eyes their hearts
    forward one step in front of another


    Sister Lou Ella Hickman is a member of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament. She has been a teacher on all levels and she has worked in two libraries.  Presently she is a freelance writer as well as a spiritual director. Her poems and articles have been published in numerous magazines as well as a poem in After Shocks: Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events edited by Tom Lombardo and a poem to be published in Down the Dark River edited by Philp Kolin.  Her first book of poetry, she: robed and wordless, published by Press 53, was released September 1, 2015.

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