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Poetry

Poetry

Coffee Hour, 1965

The ladies are staying far too long / after First Day School. We look for our  Sara Clancy
Poetry

Again

New snow falls gentle as a wish / Snow covers sallow earth Leigh Gavin Harder
Poetry

An Encounter

“And who is my neighbor?”—Luke 10:29 Anne Maren-Hogan
Poetry

Returned to Sender

The photograph shows the lines / on his back in morning light, Ellen Skilton
Poetry

Another Meeting for Worship

David sniffs. / Liam sneezes twice, loudly. / Carol coughs, / Ellen sighs. Renita Romasco
Poetry

If I Had It to Do Over, I’d Have Let the Coyotes Have All of You

I’m looking for something for dinner when I find your heart / in the freezer which reminds me of the… Julie Berry
Poetry

Do, re, mi

Sitting quietly in Quaker Meeting, it occurred to me / that honesty is one of the luxuries Charles Weld
Poetry

Song before Sleep

The broad-tailed hummers / sing high in the piñon. Wayne Lee
Poetry

September 29

Every year on September 29 / they gather. Nancy Thomas
Poetry

Pondering

His mother isn’t mentioned in the parable / of the prodigal. No surprises about that. But Dora Dueck
Poetry

While We Sleep

Last night, / a creature / bounded / down the / path and / brushed against / my tent Joan MacIntosh
Poetry

My daughter at twelve

She searches the crowd at the school carnival, / seeking ramps that reach the merry-go-round’s edge. Diem Okoye
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