Poems of Prayer and Heresy - Tapa blanda

These poems break all the rules my patient teachers taught me. For the last five and a half years I have written one “thimble” poem each morning. They are ragged children who sing off key in simple words. They were not written with an audience in mind, but now my friends have encouraged me to collect a few. In this grouping are poems of search and question, which reach with great longing toward an unknowable God. They contradict one another and are rough on the morally certain. They stretch for Cosmic Belonging with laughter and imagined Grace.

Jan Hutchinson writes a poem every morning before work. She lives beside an exuberant wetland on the outskirts of South Egremont, Massachusetts. Chet Kalm is a painter and a constant student of the Berkshire landscape. He lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

All profits from the sale of this book will benefit the Unitarian Universalist Meeting of South Berkshire, where community never means conformity.

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