Sinner
Between the rains, the salmon run
and my rattlesnake-blessed hands
hurry behind, empty except for
a hungry light that never stays.
The water stops for no one. I know
pulling cattails from the river’s edge
won’t get me any points with God, but
put them in bouquets with blue vervain
and bloodroot and you’ve got yourself
an unrequited blessing.
Kate Wylie is a writer living in St. Louis, Missouri. She graduated from Webster University in 2018 with a B.A. in English and is currently pursuing her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. When she isn’t writing, Kate is a softball coach at Webster Groves High School, devoted gamer-wife and an avid Chicago sports fan.