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Kilmurvey House
by Bryana Joy
I’m not in Ireland today, but the grey sky in West Texas has been pouring steady water for over twenty-four hours. When I went running down the flo...
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The Little Drummer Boy: A Love Story
by Bryana Joy
I learned to love Jesus at Christmas-time. I mean the kind of loving where your heart dances right over some of its beats. Where you become the sor...
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On Rubber Bands and Rejoicing, Dark Though It Is
by Bryana Joy
So the rubber band that you wear to make you stop speaking useless words? – I can’t keep it on the same wrist for half an hour. I always wondered a...
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Sometimes
by Bryana Joy
While I'm adjusting to a new schedule and a new city, and all out of time, here are some words by someone else, that underscore the music in the w...
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Edmund Votes Yes
by Bryana Joy
EDMUND VOTES YES [after Prince Caspian]She said it in three words, “Look, look, look!The mane and the golden fur!Over the gorge on the mounta...
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In Confidence
by Bryana Joy
It's that time again. Summer is closing off and all my favorite things are up around the bend. Like rain and days under the white veils of clouds. ...
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The Hunting of the Dragon
by Bryana Joy
THE HUNTING OF THE DRAGON(by G.K. Chesterton)
When we went hunting the DragonIn the days when we were young,We tossed the bright world over our s...
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Nevertheless Come Autumn
by Bryana Joy
Our hard-burning summer has shattered into September and slow rain at last. I took my little brother on a picnic yesterday afternoon and we The Ho...
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Staying Power
by Bryana Joy
Originally published in Poetry Magazine, this is a poem to knock the breath right out of you.
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