Holey Stones in Kerrville, Texas

Sabra Woodward

October 5, 2025

Bind me to my native soil, 

loop my fingers through its limestone holes.

Though pain has flowed through its tributaries, 

and blood fills the valleys that raised me.

Yet the cicada’s soft chant spreads over its hills, 

and the mourning dove’s cry always finds a willing listener. 

Sabra Woodward lives in Corpus Christi, Texas, where she works in the Del Mar College Library. Raised in Kerrville, she often writes about memory, landscape, and the intersections of faith, doubt, and daily life. Her current project is a chapbook exploring family and place.