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The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change men’s lives. As he said to the dead Lazarus, so he says to you and me: “come forth. ” Come forth from the despair of doubt. Come forth from the sorrow of sin. Come forth from the death of disbelief. Come forth to a newness of life. Come forth.

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We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

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Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit of measure.

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But here I hold your dream in my poem.

Dream, Hold, Poem, Your Dreams

Curled up in bed, I’m young in the old way.

Bed, Curled, Way, Young

As for the differences between audio and the printed page, the sonic aspects of poetry are important to me. I read my poems aloud to myself as I'm composing them. And I enjoy reading to an audience. I think people get tone more easily when they hear a writer read her work. Some people have told me they hear more humor in my poems at a live reading than when they see them on the page. I think that may be a matter of pacing. On the other hand, I've listened to a lot of poetry readings and I know how much you can miss. If you stop to really register one line, you miss the next three or so.

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Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

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