Stone Church

By Alina Sayre

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​Prayers are candles
in a dim stone church.
Some are slim tapers
in tall glass flutes.

Mine are squat,
smeared with sooty fingerprints,
mismatched all.

Still,
the flames rise
and light.

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Alina Sayre is the award-winning author of five books, a graduate student of theopoetics and an editor of Foreshadow. You can learn more about her work here, and you can find her book of poems Fire by Night here, where 'Stone Church' was previously published. The poem has been republished here with the author's permission.

Alina's other work on Foreshadow:

• Keeping Vigil (Poetry, March 2022)
• Vocation as a Gift (Interview, March 2022)
• Sleepwalker (Poetry, April 2022)
• Highway (Poetry, May 2022)​​
• Deep Gladness: Writing as a Vocation (Non-fiction, June 2022)

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