Cari Oleskewicz
February 2015
Cari Oleskewicz is a poet and writer based in Tampa and Tuscany, depending on the season. Her work has been published in a number of online and print journals including the Found Poetry Review, JAB, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Five2One, the Commonline Journal, the Pedestal Magazine, Main Street Rag, Epiphany Magazine, and Imitation Fruit Literary Journal. A short memoir called Notes to My Therapist was included in the IMPACT anthology and her poem “Girls Track” appeared in Bearers of Distance and on NPR. Cari is presently at work on a novel in verse.
a Death
God loved failing disciples
praying to a path
shining with lights.
In beauty pray
our privileges
be defended from memory.
Source Text: Prayers for a Holy Death, leaflet at Church in the Desert Church, New Mexico