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Be Still and Know:
Morning Fishing
—after the painting Fishing by Jean Carruthers Wetta
In the blue-gray early mornings, when boy and man
say nothing, hear all—water, fish, wind, wave—
prayer weaves through air, a silent Amen
breaking the surface of ripple, enough to claim
a large-mouthed bass or an undulating lake of faith
in the blue-gray early morning. When boy and man
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