Meanwhile I am staining everything- the furniture, my frayed friendships with people I can’t reply back to on time, my schedules and lists- everything is stained by me. I want to shift the image. I want to be a bright, white cloth, folded precisely on the seams. I want to dip into the bowl of indigo ink that is God, to emerge dripping, so that when I stain things it will not be of myself but of God himself, and things will be left better than I found them.
Nicole Hunka is a mental health therapist in Denver, Colorado. She earned her B.A. in English Literature and Studio Art from Wheaton College (IL), and her M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Denver Seminary. In addition to being a therapist, she is a poet, painter, and writer.
