Writing poems in a dark season

The truth about my (lack of) religious upbringing, and poems of darkness and light, including one that was just published 🎉

Based on the fact that The Life of H: Sarah, Reimagined centers on poems about a bible story, you might think that I was raised in a religious household. 

Not so.

I sometimes joke that assimilation was my family of origin’s religion.

Growing up, my mother decorated our home with red, gold, and silver ornaments and boughs of berry-flecked holly at Christmas…