by Ashley Larkin | May 20, 2013 | Community, Concrete Words, Faith, Poetry
Finger wrapped steam curls toward wood beams, this holy morning fragrance mingled with words and some tears and knit brows and shoulder shaking gold Lives, lots, portions in earthen containers and hers seems more like folds of linen this morning and she asks where is...
by Ashley Larkin | May 13, 2013 | Concrete Words, Family, Just Write, Mothering, Perspective
We zoom in. We squint. We tilt heads and thrust necks forward. We walk to the next case, the next frame and hold hands behind our backs so as to notice without touching the strokes of oil, the blended hues creating glen and chin and river and belly. We look intent at...
by Ashley Larkin | Feb 11, 2013 | Concrete Words, Faith, Perspective
I walk down the paved road that runs parallel to the shore, then cross over the bridge where the men wait over crab nets and talk about how long they’ve been there and how they’ve yet to catch one. I step onto the beach alone, and the sun is gloriously...
by Ashley Larkin | Feb 4, 2013 | Biblical tales, Community, Concrete Words, Faith, Fear, Grace, Hope, Risk-taking
For the last weeks, Sici’s collected boxes. One fits inside another inside another. She will wrap them in different papers, and her friends will unwrap one at a time, passing the square around the party circle. I’m not sure if it’s the peeling itself...
by Ashley Larkin | Jan 27, 2013 | Community, Concrete Words, Family, Marriage
In the house of a girl who loves them, this one stands apart. She’s got ceramic dishes, jars and Tupperware full of rocks and stones (though she’d need to Google to know the difference between the two). And, though once they belonged to Yosemite, Crater...
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