Life is/For Thine Is The
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One scene: The ice-hemmed trees shake rigid
gems, their limbs frozen, unblemished by cold
but stay as lovers, heart-fresh, encoiled.
Another scene: The shaking half-friends who
lost a child. Their first. The cool
blue sky like ice, a wide world, hollow.
Winter 2021
Written by Andrew Calis.
Calis teaches at Archbishop Spalding High School in Maryland. He earned his Ph.D. in English at Catholic University in 2019. His work has appeared in America: The Jesuit Review, Dappled Things, Presence, Convivium and his first book of poetry, Pilgrimages (Wipf & Stock, 2020).
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