Poetry

How to catch the holy while humming along to “Santa Lucia” (Jack Jezzro, Guitar Romance)

by Joyce H. Munro

Amen

by Malcolm Guite

Whatever the birds were

by Christian Wiman

Mary had a little lamb
(A meditation in Perthshire)

by John Paul McKinney

Angels

by Barbara Crooker

Flood, followed by a rainbow

by Hillary Kobernick

To each her own

by Emily Rose Proctor

Full flower moon

by Julie L. Moore

Lazarus

by Kim Bridgford

How to scan a poet

by Malcolm Guite

The still pilgrim ponders a paradox

by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell

Worm under the sun

by Charles Hughes

California ginkgos

by Debra Rienstra

The still pilgrim considers a hard teaching

by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell

Read THE COW IS NOW said the child

by Warren L. Molton

So Job died old and full of days

by Yehiel E. Poupko

Such signal muscularity

by Brian Doyle

Make me plow blade

by Abigail Carroll

Still life

by Greg Huteson

Punctuation

by Barbara Crooker

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