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Grace

By Barbara Presnell

Grace is the goose that glides
            on still water
then sleeping in full sun
            pulls his sleek neck
                        to his body like a child.

In air his wobbly wings
            are lifted by faith
that the wind he rides on
            will bring him
                        home.

 
     
 
 
     
  Barbara Presnell is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of Kentucky. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and collections. Barbara won the 2004 Linda Flowers Prize from the North Carolina Humanities Council, and the Brockman-Campbell Book Award and the Oscar Arnold Young Book Award. She has published three books of poetry.

Email: bpresnell@lexcominc.net
Parish: Grace Episcopal Church - Lexington, North Carolina


 

 
     
 
 

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