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Our Daughter Beside the Sea: Blue Hill, Maine

Ben Myers

The seaside rock she sits on shines a blaze   of purple shell and matte-glazed films of moss.She perches there, bent knees to chest, to gaze   the gray and frosty...

Ignatius to the Romans

Ben Myers

Be silent. Hush. Take up the sound of oozelike oil from olives that the presses bruise.Or be the sound of fresh baked loaves, the soundof seeds beneath the stony,...