Mark it well and good, walking through seasons
Page after page, to get to harvest gatherings
With chants inside church circles, and we know
Our human moments
By what’s important to us by the turn of
Hallmark’s Calendar that tells what card and
When, so we know about our births, our lives,
Our deaths, our moving
Waves through wheat, animated on the land
That offers us resurrection, twining through
It, recognizing its sense, its focus with time,
That shapes
The years and then a benediction of wind,
Which breathes fire that speaks “benedicere,”
Blessings, the Latin forgotten, sharing our life,
Our bread.
Dan Pohl instructs English composition at Hutchinson Community College in Hutchinson, Kansas. Woodley Press will publish his first book of poetry Autochthonous: Found in Place in late 2013. He lives in Moundridge, Kansas, and writes poems and prose poems. He judged the 2013 Nelson Poetry Book Contest. People can find his work published in two 2013 anthologies: Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems (Woodley Press) and To the Stars through Difficulties (Mammoth Publications), both edited by past Kansas Poet Laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg. A sampling of his poems is found online at <kansaspoets.com>. He has self-published two chapbooks: Spring House and Unpaved Roads.
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