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Poetry
Poetry
Nona and the Polenta
—For Ian, Sadie, April: your great-grandmother’s story Lombardia was a banquet before the Germans carvedthe green hills with their black…
Suellen Wedmore
Poetry
Timing
Timing is everything, sages say Girls learn it as early as double-Dutch jump rope Your turn comes up, you wait,…
Nancy Morgan
Poetry
When They Ask You to Pray
When they ask you to praythey will, in most cases,bow their heads and close their eyesand wait. And they will…
Ken Gibble
Poetry
Ordinary Life
It’s a long hike from the center of space. I hike, nevertheless, towards Des Moines. . . . It’s a…
Bear Jack Gebhardt
Poetry
Old Liza Tells of Love
When you love, it’s true, you don’t see bad teeth, or turnip toes peeking from the cutaway shoe, or if…
James Littwin
Poetry
Mixed Flock
FJ Poetry: "Beneath the feeder ..."
Ann McNeal
Poetry
How to Attend a Quaker Meeting for the First Time
FJ Poetry: "In the old meetinghouse ..."
Inez Schaechterle
Poetry
(Two Poems for Saint Thérèse of Lisieux)
FJ Poetry: "Kitchen. I peel back belief like the rings of an onion, ..."
Sarah Law
Poetry
So It Goes
FJ Poetry: "We advance in this life ..."
Mary Timberlake
Poetry
Servant
FJ Poetry: "In a black transport chair, ..."
Ruth Naylor
Poetry
Psalm 131
FJ Poetry: "Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, ..."
Jane Simpson
Poetry
River Crossing
FJ Poetry: "Sitting in bed she gazes at the river, ..."
Anne Maren-Hogan
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