There is a shadow swift as a rumor traveling the grass.
Poetry
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Pigeon Fable
Little Double-Dutch girls chant / “birdie, birdie sittin’ on a wire—”
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The View From a Cafe in Ethiopia
Hailemichael, newly blind,
Heads down the street without his cane.
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The Poisoned Loaf
A crow, legend tells us,
took the poisoned loaf
the jealous subdeacon
had sent to Benedict
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‘The Translation of the House of Loreto’
You bet it takes a miracle to explain
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Respiration
This year I’ll feel the light of the tomb
on my own bones