Joel Keith



Grace

I. The rain fell hard a moment but it left the washing dry. How happily! The rain came down and left the washing dry—now anything may II. Happiness of the house’s clutter and the wish to be changed, changed utterly. …

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Tell Me Like You Mean It 8

When commissioning for this edition of Tell Me Like You Mean It, I gave one prompt to contributors: “Go bonkers! (If you want! So fine if not!)”

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To Stella

My hair falls, some days, like an uninteresting question. I take my coffee to sit in the green chair by the window and gather into the soul, slow- ly, certain shards of light too small to note. O my life, …

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He/Hymn

After Donne All morning I have held these ends of me like frayed laces I have tried, failed to thread—laid finally, as the sea does its dead, down. Now I lie in bed. Christ’s blood, I’ve read, hath might by …

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