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  • Nightly Topic - by LaVern Spencer McCarthy Summer nights on the porch,conversation would begin            with fair-weather hymnsand corn-field benedictions—no hint of the apocalypse at first.Then, my uncle would spit,and it would be time to preach            about my sister.No letter had arrived with postagestamp from far away places—no foot-prints on the dusty road,            love, coming back.Coughs, sighs,… {more}

  • Of Toil and Harvest - by LaVern Spencer McCarthy We pray for a passing cloud,but the sun beats down in yellow spite.I plant seedlings, row after row.My brown-eyed helper follows, grumbling,douses each tiny promisewith water from a silver pail.He hates the work, grouses thathe should have goneto computer school instead.There are no hellish daysin a… {more}



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