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Jane Zwart
Jane Zwart teaches at Calvin University and coedits book reviews for Plume. Her first collection of poems is Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best (Orison Books).
Any Old How
Once a student asked if, at my house,we discussed grammar over dinner,and I laughed. Not exclusively, I said....
Antichrist
The freefall of God: he skydives into an egg,infinity supersaturating a life cycle. You knowthe story: shepherds keep watch by night...
Eastertide
for Andrew Mead
I am watching a moose ripple out of his antlers. I am watching Tollund Man, arm-in-arm with Judy Garland. I am trying to believe...
St. James the Less
It may or may not be a sin, but I cannot hear your name, St. James
the Less, without crocheting apocrypha for you, without drafting...
After baptism
Some things he will see again and again. From car windows, rowsof corn, their strobe a flipbook in which nothing much ever happens,...
A load of fence posts
In this painting, on a wagon’s perch, a man,reins invisible on his lap and his face a smudgeof umber, further tarnished by the turkey redthat day remainders on dusk. And around him,...
Twelve knives for the new year
Last Sunday my grandma laughed at the memoryof a clumsy silverware thief: one day she came hometo a slamming screen door and a trail of knivesthat began in the living room...
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