...Marc J. Straus 2005 the minnesota review 2005 the minnesota review Marc J. Straus The apocalyptic prayer Sister Mary mouthed in the chemo room was a touch too loud and had the sibilance of a dirge, but nonetheless Thomas Borland chimed...

...Crystal S. Gibbins © 2016 Crystal S. Gibbins 2016 Crystal S. Gibbins Grass Dancer: A Prayer Prairie open in me where winter comes too early, freezes grass, freezes leaves, blows away birds, blows across rivers Prairie open in me where I’ve...

...Philip Armstrong Taking its point of departure from the etymological relation between precarity and prayer as well as from Jean-Luc Nancy's writings on “prayer demythified,” the essay seeks to reconfigure problems of dependency, vulnerability, and abandonment in the discourse of precarity...

... activist women similarly on the lam include Marin Douglas in Joan Didion’s A Book of Common Prayer (1977). Alice Mellings in Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist (1977), Jenny Shimada in Susan Choi’s American Woman (2003), Anna Xenos (nom de guerre Dial) in Peter Carey’s His Illegal Self (2008), Reno...

...Adedayo Agarau [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Adedayo Agarau 2024 there was aching in the minaret's call that evening. we saw it in feet quickened   toward prayer, the hollowed throats, the panting for water, the sun sinking in the bowels of clouds, the gentle...

... North Charles my breath caught over the campus gate over a candle in a paper cup held for a moment of remembrance I will remember and I do my knit blue hat last month s walk, somehow the safest shrouded in a prayer my mother must have whispered over my whole self over and over my mother not the first...

... worn. What if I’m not done with Arcadia? What if I believe in labeling a city a school because maybe I can learn from lying next to a man telling him of prayer I once tried writing into a poem for him. She unfolded and refolded sheets of paper holding prayers for saints...

..., I kissed faceless what I thought for years was the true Madonna saying prayers before I pulled back my bedding, washed off my make-up. I watched her disappear over time, smear into a red window. 2. In art...

... Never Want to Be One (with Patti Breitman; Lantern, 2008). In The Inner Art of Vegetarianism (Lantern, 2000) and Prayers for Animals (Continuum, 2004), Adams suggests daily meditations and prayers for adults and children who value animals as peers. Recently, 110 the minnesota review...

... 99 (2022) DOI 10.1215/00265667-9993209 © 2022 Virginia Tech 107 108 the minnesota review the sovereign pontiff and with an early mass. The raw morning air whetted his resolute piety; and often as he knelt among the few worshippers at the side-altar, following with his interleaved prayer-book...

... icons and Hindu dancers with their mudras before and after them, the mute attendants of the seraglio engage in a purity of gesticulations: the duplicity of a scrotum grab, the strangulating bow string, what it means to be taken without a prayer...

...Laurie Sewall © 2017 Laurie Sewall 2017 Laurie Sewall Stones Skipping Water Cloth of her body, bones her bones, I saw my mother re- enter this earth, appear in her actual torso, real batik sneakers, white socks: a prayer with no question, dream before sleep...

... she places on either side of us, a dog named Tickle & a cat whose name I have forgotten. In your slumbering you are almost a sarcophagus while she is already whispering the ritual, the play by play of her prayer, what is what, & what goes where. Content...

...John Paul Martinez John Paul Martinez Confession While Seeding Peonies After Tiana Clark s Equilibrium the only prayer committed to memory has cut mute rehearsed last with a greasy throat in a voice drawling as northern glaciers my windowed owers sluiced in sunburns refuse to widen for any sun...

...Jim Redmond Jim Redmond Scientific Methods Outside the lightning is still on. The time it takes to take my prayers keeping time before thunder. The downbeat undone by the power surge. The light like true north, like a distress...

... that every sip is a wince. you ask, what do their hands look like? their hands are like faces and have good uses, too. then have them tell stories, you say. okay, let me think. they are laughing or they are crying it s always hard to tell prayers sink into the soil, leak under dirty beams and brace...

..., a woman with eyes shut, mouth twitching prayers, fingers flitting bead, bead, bead, Our Father, Hail Mary. An electric-fenced dog barks at passing strangers. A girl looks at the rosary in her mother’s room & only sees a necklace. minnesota review 78 (2012) DOI 10.1215...

... as pillows and whisper evening prayers into the soles so they follow me the next day use my shoes as pillows and let the heels dig into my face so when i return everyone will see the countries I have crossed use my shoes as pillows and untie...

... of hope. Who decided alphabetizing is ordered? Letters are more useful jumbled up. Thoughts & prayers are a kind of self-pleasure, subcutaneous liminalities, but cynicism is itself masturbation, milk & honey as one nocturned sour. Frivolous segues obfuscate inaction. We consume -pocalypse as oversaturated...

..., I attempt to break the cycle. I stand on the steps of the town church & sing, shout, curse, laugh, stumble, celebrate, want. Everyone can see me: free. I am not afraid to be naked, or of the sun anymore. The prayers are purged for poems about sex & life & bodies...