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Faith and Practice
FJ Poetry: "In the last bench in Meeting I am / all the other women and all of their silence."…
Nicole Greaves
Poetry
The Shelter, Dawn
FJ Poetry: "Semi-darkness stirs / the somnambulence of blankets, / a floor carpeted with pillows."
Donna Pucciani
Poetry
A Thousand Cranes
FJ Poetry: "The dry wind rushes / through a hill of golden leaves / pushing them apart..."
Alexandra Mathews
Poetry
What Comes Next
FJ Poetry: "What comes next / will come when it's ready"
Jeanne Lohmann
Abel and the Baptismal Water
FJ Poetry: "There are those who say, my child..."
Marya Small
Poetry
Kenneth Boulding
FJ Poetry: "His whole face beamed as he read Hagar the Horrible at breakfast..."
Linda Caldwell Lee
Poetry
Profit and Loss
FJ Poetry: "Backhoes filled in the bog..."
Nancy Hickman
Poetry
The Beginning
FJ Poetry: "Whatever the genesis..."
Bruce Noll
Poetry
Our Flood
FJ Poetry: "The river behind our house was rising a foot an hour..."
Harold Branam
Poetry
A Lonely Tree
FJ Poetry: In the middle of a field of high yield corns...
Gerald Bosacker
Poetry
Taking Down the Tree
FJ Poetry: They’re taking down the tree today...
Amy Neill Bebergal
Poetry
A Prayer for the Coming of the Light
FJ Poetry: The snow is melting, the air is crisp...
Lucy Duncan
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