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Diane G. Scholl
Diane G. Scholl is professor emerita of English at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.
Holy Thursday
Thin light like onion skin, snow pooling
into sky where hollows dip. Watch
for the slippery coat of filigree on roads
and pavement, cracks in ancient script....
Spring in the year of coronavirus
We didn’t remember that shade
of green, almost translucent, rousing
the distant hills for another try.
Or the pale trillium and hepatica
emerging from underneath...
Getting there
You said to me once, “I love the silence when
you get where you want to go and turn
the motor off,” and it’s true, the car breathing...
Ship-building
The feel of awl and augur in his hardened hands,the rough hull rimed with salt, a whittled plughe made himself, so tight he set his teeth!...
“Tired of the stench, Haitians burn bodies in plaza”
And the flames leap higher in the darkening sky;a vivid wall of fire sheds its light on faceshushed as if a child were being born, a manger...
St. John’s Bible, May 2005
Each twist of bird and clover winds so cunninglyinto a sheen of wing and figured leaf. Indigo, ground lapis lazuli, dark ochre, cochineal bleed...
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Borgund Stave Church, midsummer
Listen, you cannot hear the small bellsrung for mass, or smell the pungentincense. No one is selling tickets at this hour;nothing is open here at the earth’s edge...
Spring 1964
In June the World’s Fair with bright red strawberriesand cream over seared Belgian waffles. It grows hot.Trapped in the crowd, a tangled skein of nerves,...