Michael Chitwood Margaret Gibson Beckian Fritz Goldberg Rachel Hadas John Hoppenthaler Mark Jarman Philip Levine E. Ethelbert Miller Marilyn Nelson Wyatt Prunty David St. John Peggy Shumaker R. T. Smith Eleanor Ross Taylor Henry Taylor
poetry is prayer light dancing inside words
five times a day I try to write
step by step I move towards the mihrab
I prepare to recite what is in my heart
I recite your name
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