This Is Where I am Today (in my head)

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Some Musing and Some Discussion of Carolyn Chute

Boy. It’s been a while. Sorry about that, all of you who keep faithfully coming back to check out the blank pages. I’ve been taking a class in poetry (going well, thanks for asking) teaching, dealing with the necessary complications of three children, deaths in the family, and so on.

I want to talk briefly [...]

Sister Hayes Takes Up a Serpent by Rosanne Griffeth

Sister Hayes, she lifts her eyes up to the Lord so hard they roll back. She sings sacred songs and dances, quick-stepping and jerking as the anointing descends.

It descends like a tree a’falling. It falls like a wall of water. It walls up all fear of darkness. It fears no man or serpent.

Sister Hayes, she [...]

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