POETRY: Simplicity
Twinings Orange Pekoe Judith Moffett The gas ring’s hoarse exhaling wheeze, Voice of blue flamelets, licks the kettle’s Copper underbelly, which crouches Closer, concentrates, by degrees Begins...
View ArticlePOETRY: The Listener, by Billy Collins
I cannot see you a thousand miles from here, but I can hear you whenever you cough in your bedroom or when you set down your wineglass on a granite counter. This afternoon I even heard scissors moving...
View ArticlePOETRY: Christmas Sparrow, by Billy Collins
The first thing I heard this morning was a rapid flapping sound, soft, insistent— wings against glass as it turned out downstairs when I saw the small bird rioting in the frame of a high window, trying...
View ArticlePOETRY: Disciplinary Treatises—(4) The Communion of the Body, by Scott Cairns
The Christ in his own heart is weaker than the Christ in the word of his brother. (Bonhoeffer) Scattered, petulant, argumentative, the diverse members generally find little, nothing of their own, to...
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