Stripped Bare

*Originally posted February 22, 2016

Lent is winter
With trees stripped bare
through which we glimpse a distant space.
We lie. We cheat. Covet. Betray.
Winter Lent
bids us see our deeper truth.

About Louise Stowe-Johns

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and on occasion,
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