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To Fathom

By Diana Cole on March 1, 2018

FJ Poetry: “I take each stone into my curious palm. grub-gray, salmon, rounded well and calm.” 🔒

Diana Cole lives in Warren, R.I.


Posted in: Poetry, Quakers and the Holy Land
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Rahab

By Kristin Camitta Zimet on February 26, 2018

Poetry: “I lived in the wall, between the wilderness / and stony Jericho.”

Kristin Camitta Zimet lives in Winchester, Va.


Posted in: February 2018, Poetry
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Winter

By Linda Lee on February 1, 2018

Poetry: “Starving herself by choice / my mother wanted to know…” 🔒

Linda Lee lives in Indianapolis, Ind.


Posted in: February 2018, Poetry
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So Far So Safe

By E. K. Gordon on January 1, 2018

FJ Poetry: “I thought I had a can of pineapple / but it’s only apricots / in the cabinet, apricots […]

E. K. Gordon lives in Cohoes, N.Y.


Posted in: Poetry, Quaker Lifestyles
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Into a Mystery

By Kathleen Gunton on December 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: “At the start I must enter a tunnel…”

Kathleen Gunton lives in Orange, Calif.


Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, Poetry
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Grace

By Laura Jackson on December 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: “Thank you for the words my father spoke before he died.” 🔒

Laura Jackson lives in Merion Station, Pa.


Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, Poetry
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Sunday Morning Whiteout

By Franchot Ballinger on November 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: All night falling snow, a trackless silence…

Franchot Ballinger lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.


Posted in: Poetry, Quaker Libraries
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Vigil

By Tina Schumann on November 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: The hospice nurse was shaving his slack jaw when we arrived… 🔒

Tina Schumann lives in Seattle, Wash.


Posted in: Poetry, Quaker Libraries
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Voyagers

By Linda Rabben on October 1, 2017

FJ poetry: “On the road south toward home / a chevron of geese crosses…” 🔒

Linda Rabben lives in Takoma Park, Md.


Posted in: Conscience, Poetry
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Higher Order Thinking

By Katherine Murray on October 1, 2017

FJ Poetry: “What if Eve, eyeing the / red lusciousness of the apple…

Katherine Murray lives in Indianapolis, Ind.


Posted in: Conscience, Poetry
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