Steps

two steps forward
three steps back
two steps forward again
sand tracing my efforts
sun scorching my neck
someone sings on the hilltop
still too high to see
angels walk beside me,
mary magdalene
annoints my feet

Pris Campbell
©2002


Accepted for publication in Blackmail Press, summer 2003


Artwork: Mary Magdalene, by Anthony Frederick Sandys
(detail)

Music: In This Life

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