Poetry

Ritual

by Jeanne Murray Walker

To the Quaker statue in Fairmount Park

by Angela Bilger

Where color is spare

by Luci Shaw

A matins

by Peter Cooley

a poem for my sons when they yell at God

by Jacob Stratman

Gray distances

by Suzanne Underwood Rhodes

Determinism on a summer morning in the Midwest

There’s no such thing as free will and that’s bad, or so says / Stephen Cave in The Atlantic.

by Jeff Gundy

Grassy Branch Pentecostal Church, exhalations

by William Kelley Woolfitt

Badlands: Utah

by Jeanne Murray Walker

Requiem

by Warren L. Molton

Vending machine theology

by Ed Zahniser

Praying for eyes to see

by Charles Hughes

The tempter returns

by Gracia Grindal

Grassy Branch Pentecostal Church, dish towels

by William Kelley Woolfitt

Eve faces her guilt

by Gracia Grindal

The deer, lost

by Kendra Langdon Juskus

Arrival

by Joel  Showalter

Bone

by Arlin Buyert

consummation

by Lou Ella Hickman, OVISS

Adam and Eve blame each other

by Gracia Grindal

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