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Three Poems by Jane Kenyon

By Chip Cain | Published April 7, 2009

Jane Kenyon is another favorite poet of mine. Her poems are usually short often touching someplace personal within the reader’s own psyche: or at least this readers psyche. I love all three of these poems but the third poem presented here, titled Otherwise, strikes a melancholic tone that always resonates with me no mater how [...]

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Then I heard wings overhead

By Chip Cain | Published April 8, 2008

The Bat I was reading about rationalism, the kind of thing we do up north in early winter, where the sun leaves work for the day at 4:15. Maybe the world is intelligible to the rational mind; and maybe we light the lamps at dusk for nothing…. Then I heard wings overhead. The cats and [...]

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