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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
Poetry
Monument
"Your eyes are cells of shadow. / Your hands are empty...."
Anne Myles
Poetry
Lifeline
"It was the little old ladies in tennis shoes / who saved my life when I was young.…"
Pamela Haines
Poetry
These Times
"These times have left us nothing to defend, / And Rigel arcs its way into the night. . . ."
Charles Thomas
Poetry
Pronouns for God
Finally you have a name for it,that distant, other, eternally-plural presence.Not a beetle-browed patriarch or an earthy queen,Not male, female,…
Patricia Crosby
Poetry
Faith,
a spinning jump rope, rising and falling, fickle as the wind...
Anne Maren-Hogan
Poetry
How I Say God
"When she died, my mother left me with joy..."
Robin Dellabough
Poetry
Confessions of an Ex-Elder
"In the early days / before the great divorce / we used the dreadful language / of compliance..."
Nancy Thomas
Poetry
Receive Me
. . . and a woman named Martha received him into her house. Luke 10:38
Paul Willis
Poetry
Perennials
"When I biked up the hills / to your house, I saw you / planting bulbs in your yard..."
Mary Timberlake
Poetry
A Way
"Some saints point with wooden spoons, and pray with brooms..."
James Littwin
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