In her 2021 poetry collection, To Shatter Glass, Sr. Sharon Hunter explored childhood and memory, an interior pilgrimage toward understanding and forgiveness. Her new collection, Light Before the Sun, continues that pilgrimage, but it goes beyond, toward something that is more like acceptance and resolution.
“Life is a stained-glass window,” she writes, using the metaphor to suggest light, color, and brokenness. She will be looking back before she looks forward, and she will the brokenness and dysfunction of the relationships that shaped a childhood, but she will also see the beauty and the purpose within it.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Thursday Readings
“After the Winter,” poem by Claude McKay – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Threads – poem by Sonja Benskin Mesher.
“Epigram on Rough Roads,” poem by Robert Burns – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
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