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Turkey Vultures
FJ Poetry: "If someone gets up with the birds, they do notget up with the turkey vultures who sleep late..."
Charles Weld
Poetry
Always the Challenge to Be Patient
FJ Poetry: "Parking in the lot at work / early in the morning sun"
Charles Bunner
Poetry
I Have Learned
FJ Poetry: All these months I have made progress...
Marion Goldstein
Poetry
Blessing
FJ Poetry: To have lived some of my lifetime / consonant with great souls...
Ken Gibble
Poetry
After a Quote by William Penn
FJ Poetry: "Have you ever / met somebody / who carries silence / with them..."
Maggie Hess
Poetry
Most Evenings
FJ Poetry: "The road continues up the hill / paved, winding through hot trees..."
Nathan Lipps
Poetry
Court Watch
FJ Poetry: "All rise!" / Judge enters the court, robe trailing / Eyes downcast
Helen Fox
Poetry
Sonnet for George Fox’s Margaret
FJ Poetry: I see you there in the new snow / Barefoot, afire with the Lord,
Jane Yolen
Poetry
Holy Night, Holy Light
FJ Poetry: It was a nocturnal birth / Without darkness.
Ken Gibble
Poetry
A Chore Worth Doing
FJ Poetry: Day's end, most chores done, some chores not.
Bear Jack Gebhardt
Poetry
Communion
FJ Poetry: "Mean cheese bread / snuggly sandwiched into bags"
Nancy L. Bieber
Poetry
If I Had Grown In Some Generous Place
FJ Poetry: "If I had grown in some generous place—"
Kat Griffith
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