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Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space.

Everything was told! Then we could begin something new.

I been in sorrow's kitchen and done licked out all the pots. Nobody knows the trouble I seen. Steal away to Jesus. I ain't got long to stay here.

Each of us made it possible for the other. We got something done. Each believed in the other unsurpassingly.

In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms.

Soon the two children will walk down Edgehill Road from the bus stop like burros under their knapsacks,

The basket of remembrance has three sides; one is open, can it tilt and spill out?

Poetry is what you find
in the dirt in the corner,
overhear on the bus, God
in the details, the only way
to get from here to there.

The days are long but the years are short," some say, about the early years of child rearing

Now I know my capacity for awe
is infinite: this thirst is permanent,
the well bottomless, my good fortune vast.

every shut eye ain't asleep, every goodbye ain't gone.

Half of the things are as they seem. The other half, who knows. This has always been true.

It happened; it is part of who we are; it is our beauty and our terror. We must be gleaners from what life has set before us.