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Poetry

Theology

by B. R. Strahan in the September 9, 2020 issue
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If you study the leaves
each is a little book,
and the stems of grass
are lines of poetry.

Where is the patience
to hear what the wind
keeps telling us?

The blackbird in the bush
sings a psalm of summer.

              Listen.

 

This poem appears in the September 9, 2020 issue.

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