In Russian nesting dolls, the smallest is the seed doll, signifying the soul. Once you find her, what she holds is dense and hard to open— in a basic sense impossible. But more than the portly mother, she makes room for all the others, even when she’s just the dream at their heart— the hope […]
Deborah J. Shore
Deborah J. Shore has spent most of her life housebound or bedridden with sudden onset severe ME/CFS. This neuroimmune illness has made engagement with and composition of literature costly and, during long seasons, impossible. Nonetheless, she has won poetry competitions at the Anglican Theological Review and the Alsop Review and has been published in Christianity & Literature, THINK, Christian Century, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Relief Journal, and Ekstasis among others.