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By Norah Christianson
The Oxen
By Thomas Hardy
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
“Now they are all on their knees,”
An elder said as we sat in...
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By Norah Christianson
Otherwise
By Jane Kenyon
I got out of bed
on two strong legs.
It might have been
otherwise. I ate
cereal, sweet
milk, ripe, flawless
peach. It might
have been otherwise.
I...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
A Blessing
By James Wright
Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota,
Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass.
And the eyes of those two Indian...
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The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
Starlight
By Philip Levine
My father stands in the warm evening
on the porch of my first house.
I am four years old and growing tired.
I...
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The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
Lobocraspis griseifusa
By Ted Kooser
This is the tiny moth who lives on tears,
who drinks like a deer at the gleaming pool
at the edge...
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By Norah Christianson
A Story About the Body
By Robert Hass
The young composer, working that summer at an artist's colony, had watched her for a week....
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By Norah Christianson
Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming” came into my mind the day after October 7th when Hamas attacked Israel. The poem is so...
Poetry Corner
The Poetry Corner
By Norah Christianson
It’s time for some love. The world is a mess, horror is afoot, governments are nuts, we’re murdering our earth, and there’s...