Tracy K. Smith-"Refuge"-A Poem for the 4th Sunday after Epiphany, Year C

The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for the 4th Sunday after Epiphany, Year C can be found here)

Refuge

Tracy K. Smith

To accompany the lectionary reading: Psalm 71:1-6

SNIPPET:

Until I can understand why you

Fled, why you are willing to bleed,

Why you deserve what I must be

Willing to cede, let me imagine

You are my mother in Montgomery,

Alabama, walking to campus

Rather than riding the bus.

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Tracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator. She served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. She has published four collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars. Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was published in 2015. (via Wikipedia)

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