by Mark Trinka / Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer wants a word that means devastated and stunned with joy at once. Mark Trinka found the poem under the Christmas tree and ended up mounting it floor to ceiling. For When People Ask by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer I want a word that meansokay and not okay,more than that: a…
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by Kate DeVries / Some songs arrive in us early and never leave. For Kate DeVries, a psalm learned in a college dorm room with a guitar has gone on forming her for a lifetime. Psalm 40 I waited patiently for the Lord;and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.He brought me up also…
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by Linda Tomasello / Some poems arrive disguised as instructions. This one opens with a fact none of us can argue with — that nothing lasts — and ends somewhere far more tender than where it began. How To Belong Be Alone by Pádraig Ó Tuama It all begins with knowingnothing lasts forever,so you might…
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