Her hand was never
more holy than now,
gripped like a lifeboat
of rescue and solace,
interlaced with innocence
and tiny bone perfection,
the road-weary rudder
of empty tummies
and fitful sleeping.
Hand extended—hush, hush,
Fear suspended—sleep, sleep,
Was this how Jesus felt when
the three words winds responded to
were “Hush, be still”
and he held the ocean’s rage
within the quiet well of his wholeness?
yes
That’s how she felt when
the wailing stopped,
her body’s son relaxing
in the singular grasp
of her voice
singing out
his name.
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I have been singing my children to sleep since they were babies. As I hold their exhaustion close to my heart, I feel God encircle me and hold me, singing to me, pulling my head close to listen to the sacred dance of mothering hearts.
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Kelsi Folsom
Kelsi Folsom is a poet and singer making her home in beautiful Kansas City with her husband and four young children. She navigates the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood with black coffee, her library card, and a no.2 pencil. Her essays and poems are published in Motherly, Coffee and Crumbs, Grit and Virtue, Verily Magazine, Mothers Always Write, Kindred Mom, and elsewhere. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Breaking the Jar (Finishing Line Press, 2022), Buried in the Margins (Finishing Line Press, 2020), and Words the Dirt Meant to Share (Desert Willow Press, 2018). Having lived in multiple countries and moved fourteen times since getting married, Kelsi loves encouraging women to find refreshment and comfort in the moment-by-moment friendship of Jesus Christ. She firmly believes in the power of true worship to foster healing through the embodiment of God’s unconditional love. When she isn’t cooking for family and friends, she enjoys thrifting, reading Bible commentaries, and occasionally putting her B.M. in Voice Performance to good use. Connect with her on IG @kelsifolsom and sign up for her quarterly newsletter The Shameless Beauty Digest.
