poetry

J.B. Toner
Clare and Francis

Christopher Paolelli
The Edifice

John A. Di Camillo
Essere

J.B. Toner
Flight

Katy Willis
The Great Mystery

Katy Willis
Leaving Song

Matthew Alderman
A Psalm for the Sibyl

A.R. Bossert
The Telephone

Matthew Alderman
The Transfiguration of Apulia

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Flight
Seek ye first the Kingdom of the Lord—    
  So I was taught, and hastened to obey;   
  I watched the fields and rivers fall away; 
Above the soaring mountaintops I soared, 
Through Heaven-vaults alight with sun outpoured   
  On luminescent golden clouds of day;   
  And far below the sparkling oceans lay,
And world-waves, washed forever, rolled and roared.  
I haven’t found it yet; but in the search,   
  I’ve found the beauties of the earth below: 
And when on distant eyrie-tors I perch,    
  High, high above the ice and mist and snow,  
I see the sacred home and land and Church  
  From which the secret winds that lift me blow.

—J.B. Toner

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J.B. Toner is a graduate of the school of hard knocks.