Found poem: upon arrival at the Abbey

By Erin Clark

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dear sister
welcome! I hope

that you have had a good journey
and that

this will be a blessed
stay.

If you would like
us to meet

I could come to St Hugh
@ 3.20 on Wednesday

but if you want to be
undisturbed

I shall quite understand.
With love

Sr
Mary Cuthbert

+
pax

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Erin Clark (she/her) is an American writer & priest living in London. Her work has appeared in publications in the US, UK and Canada, including The Selkie, the Oxonian Review, the New Critique, Free Verse Revolution, The Primer, Over/Exposed, the Crank, Geez, About Place and elsewhere. Her debut chapbook ​Whom Sea Left Behind will be out in 2023 (Alien Buddha Press). You can find her online at emclark.co or on Twitter @e_m_clark.