Ellery Akers | The Sun Magazine #2

Ellery Akers

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Ellery Akers is a California artist and naturalist. She wrote her latest book of poems while sitting in a camp chair on a hiking trail.

— From July 2022
Poetry

The Word That Is A Prayer

One thing you know when you say it: / all over the earth people are saying it with you; / a child blurting it out as the seizures take her, / a woman reciting it on a cot in a hospital.

April 2007
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