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Sydney Lea
Sydney Lea, a former Pulitzer finalist, is author of the poetry collection What Shines.
A Dream of Suffering
. . . in such strength...
Shabbos goy
The early palaver of nestling crows
Outside my window in the white pine tree
Calls back a childhood in which such ruckus
Seemed prelude to possibility....
Junior scholar
Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of
the least of these, you did for me....
Through a window
I read a poem each Sunday Our pastor calls this Ministry
of Verse I try to find a poem not just she but anyone...
Gone to grace
Before Malcolm’s funeral got started,I stood talking with John the blacksmith, who told meHe’d been spending some pretty hard hoursWith a pair of two-year-old Friesian mares...
The pastor
I have just one person left on earth who’s been
My friend through grade school, high school, church, and sports,
The pastor says. Meanwhile the winter rain...
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Isaiah saw the Word?I look up from Writ and am at first just—interested.How to see something spoken?And yet one needs to think,...
Barnet Knoll Brook
—in a time of warHere’s what’s to be read, or part of it,in mud by the brook after last night’s storm—storm that scrawled itself on sky...