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    Ode: Spring Mourning
    By Daniel Leach
    • 10 hours ago
    • 2 min

    Ode: Spring Mourning

    The first soft days of springtime greet my eyes Like a young girl’s face, smiling fresh and clean, The sunlight falls, like hope, from...
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    Listening to "Burnt Norton"
    Fr. Dwight Longenecker
    • 10 hours ago
    • 5 min

    Listening to "Burnt Norton"

    I’m using the word “listening” in this series on Eliot’s Four Quartets to suggest not only that the poetry should be read aloud or...
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    Looking Down
    By Daniel Platt
    • 2 days ago
    • 1 min

    Looking Down

    Behold, she dangles, helpless in the sky, Affrighted by the curving earth below: It beckons so seductively, as though 'Twould be a...
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    Clay Pots
    By James A. Tweedie
    • 4 days ago
    • 1 min

    Clay Pots

    And yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay and you are the Potter. We are all formed by your hand. Isaiah 64:8 God takes a ball...
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    From the Beautiful to the Sublime: Schiller's "Guides of Life"
    By David B. Gosselin
    • 7 days ago
    • 9 min

    From the Beautiful to the Sublime: Schiller's "Guides of Life"

    Two kinds of genius may escort you throughout life. True Goodness falls on him who lets them lead as one. Beauty enlivens and makes brief...
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    I Marvel
    By Caitlin Johnstone
    • May 19
    • 6 min

    I Marvel

    I marvel at the way elderly couples can walk together with such delicateness that it’s like they’re holding the fate of the world in...
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    Restoring Pontormo’s Veronica
    By Lily Prigioniero
    • May 15
    • 2 min

    Restoring Pontormo’s Veronica

    I swear he breathed down my neck. I smelled his pungent manhood, grimy crusts on his pant thighs he was no faint knight— a madman in...
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    Sappho Fragments 2, 55, and 58
    Translation
    • May 12
    • 2 min

    Sappho Fragments 2, 55, and 58

    Sappho, fragment 2 (Lobel-Page 2 / Voigt 2 / Diehl 5, 6 / Bergk 4, 5) Come, Cypris, from Cretea to meet me at this holy temple where a...
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    A Riff on Abstraction
    By Richard Katrovas
    • May 12
    • 1 min

    A Riff on Abstraction

    "Evil is the systematic substitution of the abstract for the concrete." —Sartre As in “concrete” as well as “abstract,” and though I...
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