Poem for the God of Small Mercies
“Now, as usual, it is 3 a.m, and I am making / chokeberry jam. The ingredients: chokeberries, / pectin, sugar. The approximation of a prayer: any / violence made sweet.”
Audrey Gradzewicz
Audrey Gradzewicz was born in Buffalo, New York. Her poems have been published in Southern Indiana Review, Smartish Pace, Mid-American Review, Muzzle, The Puritan, Ninth Letter, and Passages North.