The Texas Star
Sister Lou Ella Hickman
July 10, 2021
cooperia pedunculata
(also known as the hill country rain lily)
i
after
spring/early summer rain
it
rises blooms
small moon white
on a slender green stalk
along the highway
a star
ii
a barbed wire fence
protects a field
where a sky of stars
fell the night before
and stayed
Sister Lou Ella Hickman’s poems and articles have appeared in numerous magazines and journals as well as four anthologies. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2017 and in 2020. Her first book of poetry entitled she: robed and wordless was published in 2015 by Press 53.
