poetry

Sixty-one years ago today, in Flossenbürg, Germany, Nazi guards hanged Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Two weeks later, the Soviets would liberate the prison. This is the last poem he wrote, found in his cell. "By the Powers of Good" With every power for good to stay and guide me, Comforted and inspired beyond all fear, I’ll live these

Sorrow Marie Howe So now it has our complete attention, and we are made whole. We take it into our hands like a rope, grateful and tethered, freed from waiting for it to happen. It is here, precisely as we imagined. If the man has died, if the child's illness has taken a sudden turn,