By S. E. Reid Aside from being one of the most widely recognizable saints in history, Saint Francis of Assisi is typically used as an enduring symbol of holy ecology and love for Creation. According to the legends about his incredible life, Francis preached to the birds, extended compassion to a ferocious wolf, and surrounded…
Poetry, September 2025
A Cup of September
By S. E. Reid I love September. I love the holy in-between-ness of it, the way it slinks in on tentative tiptoes. One summer day you’re over-warm and uncomfortable, and then one morning you wake up and catch a whiff of autumn. It’s subtle, but it’s there. Just a hint. Before living here on these…
June 2025, Poetry
Swimmers
By S. E. Reid lake-cold is its own moment,a sleeping aquifer yawning underfootinvisiblebut we can feel it; this wateris thousands of years oldand yet we—finite things—swim unaware in eternity,dragonflies dodgingin the heavy summer stillness. the dogs shake,glitter flies,fish dart away from our kicking feet, and up high,the humming planes look down on usswimming breast-stroke through…