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Desert Song in Dappled Things  by Jeffery Essmann

The world has known more threadbare days than these, I’m sure, with history’s edges rubbed so raw that time and truth were chafed and ill at ease, and humans failed both spirit and the law. So while we find our troubled times unique, we’re never really out of Egypt, out of Babylon, still crying out and weak in Sinai’s desert, plagued with doubt. And God won’t turn the TV off or stop the news or make the bad man go away. He’ll help us, though, our desert madness drop and guide us back to grace’s simple sway. He’ll bring us back to mornings free of fear, when birds alone can bring a soul to tears.

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"Grave Thoughts" by Jeffrey Essmann

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Perhaps, I thought, it’s time I bought a grave:Just something humble by a chain link fenceWith room enough my name there to engraveAnd one or two geraniums to braveWith grace the passage still of earthly timeAnd mind the passersby of fairer climes(An aisle down, where folks aren’t packed so dense). It’s not so much that I’ve been feeling old(At least not older than I rightly should)But sense now…