Christopher Woods

Christopher Woods is a writer and photographer who lives in Texas. His monologue show, Twelve from Texas, was performed in NYC by Equity Library Theatre. His poetry collection, Maybe Birds Would Carry It Away, is published by Kelsay Books.

Bead by Bead

Poetry

At the end of it
   my mother grew light.
  Seemed hollow the way
   bird bones are hollow. 
Mom could sit forever
   at the breakfast table to finger
   her silver rosary strung with blue
   glass beads that had small pocks
As some flower seeds are almost
   perfect spheres but fall short
   have pocks, flaws. Mom said 
   her quiet Hail Mary’s decade after decade
Until she’d finally doze off somewhere between
“The fruit of thy womb” and “the hour of our death.”