✨ P.S.

I’m writing to you ...

P.S.

I close my eyes and see
a seagull in the desert,
high, against unbearably blue sky.

There is hope in the past.

I’m writing to you
all the time, I am writing

with both hands,
day and night.

—Franz Wright

From Contemporary Catholic Poetry: An Anthology, edited by April Lindner and Ryan Wilson, Iron Pen, Paraclete Press, forthcoming September 2024. Used by permission of Paraclete Press. Photo by Jeremy Bishop, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.