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Category: Poetry
The Strength of Fields
The Strength of Fields - by James L. Dickey A Poem for Jimmy Carter's Presidential Inauguration. ... a separation from the world,a penetration to some source of powerand a life-enhancing return ...  ...
read moreThe Gift Outright
The Gift Outright - by Robert Frost A Poem for John F. Kennedy's Presidential Inauguration The land was ours before we were the land’s She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people. She was ours In Massa...
read moreThe Angels and the Furies
The Angels and the FuriesMay Sarton 1 Have you not wounded yourself/ And battered those you love/ By sudden motions of evil,/ Black rage in the blood/ When the soul, premier danseur,/ Springs toward a murderous fall?/ The furies possess you. ...
read moreTo Tell of Bodies Changed
Having desired little /more than thearrival of the little more/that arrives,/ outside our window a cypress/of model proportions./Its patience seems to widen/the nights we sleep in Rome.Warm flags draw a tortoise,/it scrapes too near./Our friends hur...
read moreAbout Katie
Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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