THE HIEROPHANT

Violeta Woolywisp Joy

i live in adornment

and my days remind

me of death. i wash the

stale ache from my hair.

i braid in one prayer for

the wailing, one prayer

for the praying, one

prayer, they say, no

matter the wailing,

to keep on praying.

Violeta Woolywisp Joy (she/her) is a writer and visual artist making work of body, grief, earth, and ether. She is proud to write of her experience living with chronic illness and pain. Her most recent writing can be found in Spell Jar Press's Moon Water Anthology and Full Mood Mag.