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Linda Mills Woolsey
Linda Mills Woolsey is professor of English emerita at Houghton College.
On the persistence of lies and poetry
Of course we all know Adorno said that after Auschwitz
poetry as we know it is senseless. The world keeps on
stumbling into the flames and dust obscures...
After amen
Last words—alleluia, alleluia—echo as we
gather coats, bulletins, purses, hopes,
shut away our prayers again with the names...
Shadow and light
Sometimes to the eye, the green shadow of the vinehas more substance than the vine itself, its leavesfluttering, translucent awnings in the mind....
In the vineyard
Lineage matters, but thirst makes greatness
possible. Carried across oceans, these vines
have rooted on this shore, to live always...
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