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Meetings
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Poetry
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
Poetry
Dandelion Boy
The history tour ends / in the cemetery filled with headstones,
Gay Norton Edelman
Poetry
First Meditation
Lands, oceans of light open / the night where I learn to swim
Laurinda Lind
Poetry
Knees
As children, we knelt to pray. Joints, cartilage, / bones, though new, though barely tested,
Dora Dueck
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