Tag: Bride
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18. Dissent
Love used to be stories: Knights win princesses Cowboys untie damsels Savages capture concubines Exchanges of property and wealth the brokerage of Catherine of Braganza Love was a trade When it was romanticized sometimes it started in the schoolyard or the fields sweethearts and youthful innocence held them like glue sticks The working class and…
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16. Bells
*Ding-Dong* waited at the door to be greeted by your father have you back by ten and treat you like his daughter made sure to open up and help you into the passenger moved the umbrella, meant to keep us from the water *Ring-Ring* our food was up after we waited by the window like…
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The Bride of Christ and No More Night: Meditation on Revelation 21:25
“And its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.” When I lived in Clarks Summit for 8 months I went to a sandwich shop and the man working behind the counter said, “This is the kind of town where you don’t have to lock your doors.” In other words,…
The Reconstructed 