CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION Donald Cozzens Sins, Mortal & Otherwise As an earnest young Catholic boy thinking seriously about the priesthood, I was surprised to find myself wishing I were...
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Five Poems by Jean Gallagher Two Math Lessons Grade 3 What belongs with what and how do you name it. Now that's a math I can do, I thought, opening to page 1, the very beginning, the...
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Edge 1. Sit right at the edge, legs dangling over. Learn to love the air's empty decisions, having nothing to do with you. Heels bouncing heartbeats off the cliff wall: that's the edge. A...
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"ittiliflWOMM LETTER FROM SPAIN After the bombings watched the television coverage of the terrorist bombings in Madrid from a hotel room in Gibraltar. My wife and I were vacationing in Spain, and...
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Photograph: Temptation (Duccio, Temptation on the Pinnacle of the Temple, 1308/1311) Here's one of me up on hunger's balcony, my head just emerging from the gold smog of childhood, my ideas still...
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Jean Gallagher Nothing Seems to Happen. Everything Sails. Nothing seems to happen but the daily swimmings and drownings and savings of this bright, bound ocean. Everything in the room, the room...
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Jean Gallagher Particular Annunciation (Or, We Discuss Having a Child) The thought arrives like Gabriel with his art deco wings, sleek as glazed porcelain, striped and full of eyes as a...
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14. Jean Gallagher Arches of Bridge Break Ranks* (Or, My New Marriage) I see them suddenly tumbling but still — in their disaggregate congregating, their unpacked, uploosed...
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