<\/p>\n
in the country of belief<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
In the country of<\/p>\n
belief\u00a0\u00a0 old women read cards<\/p>\n
draw them from pouches<\/p>\n
embroidered with bronze and gold<\/p>\n
offer ways to light the dark<\/p>\n
****************************<\/p>\n
I lost two cities, lovely ones<\/p>\n
tight streets unfolding to the eye.<\/p>\n
Boys rise up in old men, wings begin to sprout<\/p>\n
and the ports have names for the sea.<\/p>\n
We look for communion<\/p>\n
(there are easier ways of making sense)<\/p>\n
any small thing can save you:<\/p>\n
petals on a wet black bough,<\/p>\n
the cold flash of the blue, unappeasable sky.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
cento portion: Elizabeth bishop, Robert hayden, Pete Fairchild, Auden, Levertov, billy collins, mark doty, ezra pound, Stanley kunitz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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