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Postcard: The Swans at the Royal Botanic Gardens
“But are they sad?” I overheard her say. No more than five Up North with mum for the August bank holiday. I saw what she meant. They hardly seemed...
Ordinary Time
The tang of juniper, the dew-wet grassThat grabs your ankles, apples for the taking.The haze between the hills like smoke at Mass. The trees; His stretched...
The View from Here Is Glory
This Our Exile by joshua hren angelico press, 142 pages, $18 What is “Catholic fiction”? Must it instruct us in dogma? Or present a sacramental worldview? Must it be...
