The Common Good

Priscilla Atkins

Articles by Priscilla Atkins

Angels of America
August 1, 2010

The hospital chaplain who sits in the room of a sick child
in Chicago and brings the child to God—not with words
but by her quiet presence.

Crucifix
March 1, 1997

From below,

it looks like a young woman,

hair pulled over to the side

like the tail of a horse

swishing over her shoulder