by Kate Champagne
The candle is lit. Trembling,
shuddering, it sends ashen
supplication skyward,
its flame a borrowed tongue for
my mute cry, offering streams
of wax for unshed tears.
Bees are the most generous
creatures: they give their life’s work
to we who cannot pray.
Kate Champagne lives in the Twin Cities. A lover of languages, she holds a Master’s in Spanish from Middlebury Language Schools in Vermont with a specialization in linguistics. She teaches Spanish by day and writes in the in-between, especially moved to give voice to the poetry of the everyday experience and the complexities of the interior life. Kate has been published in Chariot Press and Folio Literary Journal and has work forthcoming in the anthology Rebellion of Quiet Things.
header image: Untitled (2024), copyright Kairos Photography.
