a storm-drummed dock, tongue-swirled scotch, the sea’s salted singe make a clean bed in a white room on a bright hall recede to the point where lightning and horizon crash.
Kathryn Lester-Bacon is a Presbyterian pastor in Virginia. Her work has appeared in <i>The Wayfarer</i>, <i>Fidelia's Sisters</i>, and <i>Presbyterian Outlook</i>.