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Continue reading →: “Oedipal”A Poem by Adam Lambdin I myself have all the other, And the very ports they blow — All the quarters that they know I’ the shipman’s card. I will drain him dry as hay. Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his penthouse lid. He shall live a man forbid. Weary seven nights, nine times…
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Continue reading →: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Revisited”A Poem by Adam Lambdin Move from inferno to mount, climbing we gain new heights In a wilderness that calls to us. (Dante 7) City being natural to sinner as ocean were to mermaids. Am I justified in changing this, Mr. Prufrock? If one damned sinner answered Dante in such…
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Continue reading →: “As a Sparrow”A Poem of Personal Doubt by Adam Lambdin Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? – Matthew 6:26 We may represent behavior as static, a…
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Continue reading →: The Pools of BethesdaThe city of Jerusalem contained numerous pools, and Bethesda was one such site surrounded by five colonnades or porticos. It was associated with healing from early on and is mentioned only once in the Bible in the fifth chapter of the book of John where Jesus healed a paralytic. The…





