A Prayer

Tall angel please

Drip your honey off your fingertips into the mouths of

My children and deliver them from

This air conditioned life into something

More alive.


 

A.L. Sinclair earned her master's in Creative Writing from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Her prose and poetry have been featured on BOMB Magazine's blog, Slate.com, Mutha Magazine and forthcoming in Blueline Magazine. She is the mother to three young girls and lives in Dallas, Texas. She is working on her first chapbook which explores the experience of being a young mother living in Texas in current times.