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Poetry
Poetry
My Body
The breath comes in. / I don’t know why. / I didn’t decide, / I didn’t try.
Bud Clark
Poetry
Skaters
Disturbing oaks’ reflections, / the water striders swirl, spin, still / in the river’s quiet curl...
Karen Kilcup
Poetry
While It Is Still Dark
While still dark enough to be called night, / yet just before dawn, I think of you hundreds / of…
Ellen June Wright
Poetry
The Merry Love the Fiddle
I was 58 before I learned he used to fiddle...
David Black
Poetry
Finding God
“God is everywhere but He is losing.”—Margaret Atwood
Ed Higgins
Poetry
Having to Live With
Sometimes it's your sleeping form next to me / your fingers curled at the nape of my neck...
David Morse
Poetry
Practicing Steadfastness
When I ask myself, ‘What is devotion?’I find that my answers are all verbs: to kneel and kiss the ground, and then rise…
Lisa Lundeen
Poetry
The Leader
He comes The Leader with much applause / and turning of heads and scraping / and bring out the candles…
Nancy Thomas
Poetry
The Dreams that Shake Me Awake
How might I name the thunder rumbling inside the landscape of my heart,the nightmares that shake me awake? And dare I…
Michael S. Glaser
Poetry
Some Days
Some days I want to tell the newscasters I don’t want to know about the brown-eyed little girl missing from…
Colette Tennant
Poetry
The Second Blizzard
"At the supermarket, a friend stopped to talk about his flight back to the island..."
Joan MacIntosh
Poetry
Dinner in Westport
"For dinner this evening / I’ll take the Serrano ham and sheep cheese..."
Peter Moretzsohn
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