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Dark Mercy

Cynthia Erlandson

โ€œHast thy dark descending and most art merciful then.โ€Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Wreck of the Deutschland You who are both Beginning and Ending          Though You...

Cutting Down Chrysanthemums

Cynthia Erlandson

โ€œWhat we call the beginning is often the endAnd to make an end is to make a beginning.The end is where we start from.โ€            ...

Ascension Day: Facing East

Cynthia Erlandson

โ€œBetween the essence and the descentFalls the shadow.โ€—T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men โ€œ. . . All things proceed to a joyful consummation.โ€—T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral...