Poetry: Feasting

Feast­ing –Eliz­a­beth W. Gar­ber From Pierced by the Sea­sons I am so amazed to find myself kiss­ing you with such aban­don, fill­ing myself with our kiss­es astound­ing hunger for edges of lips and tongue. Return­ing to feast again and again, our bellies…

Poetry: Proverbial Ballade

Prover­bial Bal­lade –Wendy Cope Fine words won’t turn the icing pink; A wild rose has no employ­ees; Who boils his socks will make them shrink; Who catch­es cold is sure to sneeze. Who has two legs must wash two knees; Who breaks…

Poem: Four Adoption Terms Defined

This short poem by Rita Laws first seen in OURS: The Mag­a­zine of Adop­tive Fam­i­lies (now Adop­tive Fam­i­lies mag­a­zine) attempts to point out humor­ous­ly the impact of neg­a­tive lan­guage in adop­tion… Four Adop­tion Terms Defined Nat­ur­al child: any child who…

Poetry: IV

From A Tim­bered Choir (Coun­ter­point). –Wen­dell Berry The sum­mer ends, and it is time To face anoth­er way. Our theme Reversed, we har­vest the last row To store against the cold, undo The gar­den that will be undone. We grieve under the weak­ened sun To see…

Poem: The Rules of Evidence

The Rules of Evi­dence –Lee Robin­son What you want to say most is inad­mis­si­ble. Say it any­way. Say it again. What they tell you is irrel­e­vant can’t be denied and will even­tu­al­ly be heard. Every ques­tion is a lead­ing ques­tion. Ask it any­way, then…

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