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Poetry

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

FJ Poetry: ”How might I name the thunder / rumbling inside the landscape of my heart” 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
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
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