Prayers in Need The prayers of missing meals grow cold on the backroom tables of the poor, down the long hall of broken promises. The prayers of mothers fall on vines of famished words. So few are the ways to tell a child—there’s not enough. The prayers of empty bowls and the prayers of useless spoons clatter in closets of want. In silent kitchens, the prayers of being heard simmer as they wait for answers. Tonight, in the skies above the twinkling cities of the satisfied, the prayers of those in need wither before they reach the stars. Click on the button below to listen to Henry Crawford reading his poem Henry Crawford is a Maryland poet and the author of two poetry collections, American Software (2017) and the Binary Planet (2020).
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Joanne Rocky Delaplaine
5/13/2020 04:02:28 pm
how do folks sign up for the reading tonight?
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