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Reading Pascal at Mint Springs


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Scattered Thundershowers this Afternoon


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Autumn Interrupts


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The Cheshire Cat


Kate Bluett
Incarnation


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To a Young Tenor Singing Schubert


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Oracle near Restful Waters


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Consummatum Est


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Incarnation
She grows
round, a slow trans-
figuration. Some days it
seems she has always been waiting;
sometimes the immanence bewilders her.
The hidden confounds her, its stillness terrible,
its movements swift and sudden, joy dancing
on her inmost nerves. She waits to see him at last,
hold him, take him in her hands, receive him.
Present now, he will then be visible, glorious
to behold, his voice a clarion heard by all.
She waits. One day he will be here,
warm and breathing, sweet
and strangely
small.

--Kate Bluett

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Kate Bluett is the wife of J.R. and the mother of Joseph. She writes, for the most part, while they are asleep. She is also a graduate of the University of Dallas, 2001 and 2006. And she lives in a city with the odd name of The Colony, Texas.