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Mary M. Brown
Mary M. Brown taught at Indiana Wesleyan University for many years. She is the poetry editor at Flying Island.
Half a Heritage
And then there’s Dad, sent off at twelve to boarding school where he learned the rudiments of Lutheran theology and how...
Adapting in Ethiopia
They warned us, like innocents, not to nameour goat, to exercise good sense, refuseto see him as a pet or even, oops,as him. Just do whatever all it takes to tame...
Altar flowers
They choose silence, their petalsheld like tongues. Their stemsentangled, some are broken, others...
“As you are able
would you please rise for the readingof the Gospel?" is what the lectorforgets to say before she begins...
Stages of recovery in simile
After the sorrow, the angerrises like dust, a mitewith its own life, its own mightyspirit, its power so buoyant...
Lost in the Forest
“The Department of Defense announced Friday thatthe battery operated ‘digital’ bugle has come of age andis a necessity with only about 500 U.S. military buglers...
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A religious background
In the year that I was born, at a small religious collegein northern Illinois, witnesses recall how just after dinner...