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Poetry published by Wayfare. Edited by Kathryn Knight Sonntag.
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Bridal Veil
You wanted a painting to feel to the brim: cracks sandpapered shut, holding perfect pebble drops that smacked and stretched to form you. What you…
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Alixa Brobbey
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Elkanah's First Wife, Hannah
Elkanah’s First Wife, Hannah The calf bent against the bristling rope, resisting but not bolting. He pulled back his teeth, a rough tongue brushing the…
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Courtney Hatch
The Sound that Birthed the Universe
This is the note that cuts like a scalpel This is the sound: the bang that triggered time and space, the vibration that separated light from darkness…
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Sarah Carter (she/her)
New Things Old
There was the story you kept in a box The one you pickled in a jar And the one you folded under the sheets Covered and clean, neat and nutty On tatami…
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Moe Graviet
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Cain
From the beginning, he was willful and always wanting more. Gardener that I am, I hoped to train his nature toward stubborn love of God and desire for…
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Merrijane Rice
Poem to be Left Behind
The things I want you to know will streak behind me, contrail. Think of it as me singing my way to God. I sing what I’ll carry. The moments I didn’t…
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Darlene Young
His Eyes
After Carl Bloch’s “The Mocking of Christ”
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Mark Bennion
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