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Milestones & Obituaries
Poetry
Poetry
Hello, Sun
With the Quakers, I sit outside the meeting room, under the giant redwood trees.
Jeanne Althouse
Poetry
Consolation
On a loose stone atop the bluestone wall / by the gate, this lichen’s a rough oval . . .
Anne Richey
Poetry
Hospice Bed Tales
If hospice beds could speak / We’d hear not much of ways to die / But of ways to live
Bonnie Stockslager
Poetry
Credo
I believe / there is always hope.
Tammy Iralu
Poetry
Carried
The log where my dad perched as a bluebird / in the full sun
Kim Parko
Poetry
By the Pond
Turtles bask, / heads up, / in sun.
Magda Andrews-Hoke
Poetry
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
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