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First Latin Mass
Under their trapdoor brass lid buried flushIn marble lay the notes: a shallow tombOf keys that Lazarus-like would ring the chimesAt consecration. Just the lightest brushOf fingertips, the slightest...
Deferred
I never shot a commie or a Nazi In ’66, but this is what I did: Field-stripped an M1 when I was in ROTC. There were a lot of...
Magnificat
Already gravid, she ascended, nearly bereft of any solace, faith, or hope. The pregnant matron, proudly and austerely knowing, met her on the slope, aware of all that Mary...
Review of Breakwater
Breakwater by Catharine Savage Brosman Mercer University Press, 112 pages, $30 n If classical meter really did begin with literal feet (versifiers out for a walk, two short steps...
What Good Is It That Girls Need Never Go To War?
What good is it that girls need never go to war Or wear a shield or march in columns orBow down to Mars, if they take out a...
