This is total upheaval, the world upside-down./ How sweet and free to be told love is ours.

It rains and rains and rains and rains and the children cannot sleep.

they last seconds then dissipate like apologies

I worried his soul had been out for too long.

Cairns is a rare figure in American letters: a religious poet free of mawkish piety.

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