portraits: texas windscapes

Sister Lou Ella Hickman

June 7, 2026

i

child 

blow out the dandelions 

candles small votives on your cake

breath under your sailing kite

ii

first peoples’ pictographs

stories told on the wind of memory

and wild horse desert

so many   their hooves were wind and thunder

iii

amarillo  lubbock, corpus christi 

witchita falls  abilene 

a windy cities list

tornado alley

iv

west texas tumble weeds

north texas blizzards

east texas windsinging pines

south texas hurricanes

iv

wind  and  big bend

unlike the clock big ben

time slows here

where the water flows

carves history into rock

with wind’s ancient answers

Sister Lou Ella Hickman, OVISS writings have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. Press 53 published her first book of poetry in 2015 entitled she: robed and wordless and her second, Writing the Stars on October 4, 2024. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2017 and 2020.