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Poetry
Joseph O'Brien
For Sister Rosemary Johnson, R.S.M.And a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise.—Gn 2:10Adam…could not have inferred from the fluidity and transparency of water that it would suffocate him….—Hume The botany that blessed Mendel’s pisum—Has
Poetry
Scot Brannon
The editors of America are pleased to present the winner of the 2015 Foley Poetry Award.
Poetry
Joe Hoover, S.J.
This year’s Foley poetry contest
Poetry
Michael Gray
I’ll return for one night, carrying youpapaya. Thickly cut. Resembling driftwood scattered below the parking lotI can see from Sacramento’s river bridges. I’m taking I-5 south to 99. Cut tomatoskins roll in foil. My chest drops like ocean swells I could onlysee once
Poetry
Anya Silver
“I am rebegot/ Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.” — John Donne, “A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy’s Day” Again and again, from nothingness I’m born.Each death I witness makes me more my own.I imagine each excess line of mine erased,each muscle
Poetry
John Lawrence Darretta
The lady of the cleanersdoesn’t care.She really doesn’t care.She writes your fatein a steamed infernoand presses with despair.Three pins in mouth—Judas, Cassius, Brutus,—she greets you lowand points with tail,like Cerberus,to where the stainedand spotted go.“Come again,