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Human Driftwood: Walking along the shore of the Resurrection

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Have you ever paused to consider the ocean’s art of driftwood, walking along the shore at dawn? Ever paused at dusk as the foam chilled your feet to meditate on a silver gray block of […]

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A New England poet of nature, indeed, but something must also be said for Wilbur’s Catholic vision of the poet. […]

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