Twentieth-Century Adam and Eve

A POEM

By Gwendolyn C. Carr | November 1983

As aliens yearn

For the native land.

We still return

To the garden —

Taste ancient fruit,

Graft seasoned sins

Onto new generations.

When Angels Danced

When angels danced on heads of pins

The ways of men were means not ends;

…

Prayer after Communion

Body, flesh and blood, feeling.

I have been here before, kneeling

in the snow, in…

Parting Word

“If I do not go —
the Spirit will not come.”

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