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What Not Knowing Who You Really Are Looks Like
Matches / mutter to candles in a closet, / Somebody needs to install / a light in here!
Daniel Skach-Mills
Poetry
Because
Due to the state of our country and environment, I’ve been having trouble maintaining an outlook that includes gratitude and…
Lynn Huntley
Poetry
When I Unravel
Let spools of featherlight wisdom / swaddle me still. / Let there be brave instruments—
Clara Fuehler
Poetry
The Silence of Rockford Chapel
Here among Friends / when the door shuts, / the silence hits / like a change in air pressure.
Todd A. Comer
Poetry
Why I Attend the Evening Quilting Session
Rainwater spills from the spouting—I hear it splashing at the edge of the gardenas bleak afternoon wanders slowlyinto night—the water…
Carole Mertz
Poetry
God Is in the Empty House
those three days while my husband / takes the kids to visit his mother.
Morrow Dowdle
Poetry
Adirondack Walk #1
On a painting by Rosann Berry.
Judith Liebmann
Poetry
We Believe In Trees
Grown from an English town / the size of four oxgangs, farmed
Mary Alice Dixon
Poetry
God Was Big
God was big / In the Europe of old
J W Goossen
Poetry
Pneuma
He once declared / That the spirit is like this.
Geoff Knowlton
Poetry
Recovering Boy
He’s maybe 5. / Thrashing, crying post-op.
Gay Norton Edelman
Poetry
In Need of Repair
A metaphor for today.
Jennie Sherwin
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