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Poetry

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
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
blinds Poetry

In Need of Repair

A metaphor for today. Jennie Sherwin
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