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Jane Zwart
​

Hymnody

In a room with ruined blinds, someone
is writing a poem, someone is singing

alto under the angels: someone else;
she makes melody her dependent.
​
Someone else--

                               Here the conditions
for beauty are ripe. I own a spoon

meant only for honey; hawks cross
the yard, large as puppies, on the other side

of the glass my desk faces; I can spare
my son tangerines when he asks

for oranges, when he wants to drive studs
of clove into their skins like the orphans

in his book, kids who scare off spirits
simply by making pomanders. He asks.

I am writing a poem—and not, like
someone, in an ill-favored place; I have only

to harmonize. I mean there are hymns
that scoop something from the earth--

opal, son, quill of Hawk’s red tail--
and hold it under a stronger light,

and there are hymns that borrow
nothing. Someone teaches an apple

to leap, polished, from her sleeve;
in a room with ruined blinds, she is
​
writing a poem, someone is adorning
an orchard never meant to fruit



Conditional Love Poem

It does not take many folding chairs or much distance
to remind me that I might not have found you. Without
sons, without friends, in a row of people we do not know,
you look suddenly, distressingly separate: a man who could
have had another life.
​
                                         A long time ago, a stranger snatched
the X at the back of my overalls before I could cross
the street that a box truck barrelled down. Which is how--
on seeing you, seated among strangers—I recognize
this affront as relief, as gratitude almost outraged.

--
Jane Zwart teaches at Calvin University, where she also co-directs the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly, and Ploughshares, as well as other poetry journals and magazines. Along with Timothy Liu, she serves as a reviews editor for Plume.


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      • Sandra Crouch Spring 2023
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      • Rita Feinstein Spring 2023
      • Dan Fliegel Spring 2023
      • Lisa Higgs ​Spring 2023
      • Dennis Hinrichsen ​Spring 2023
      • Mara Jebsen ​Spring 2023
      • Abriana Jetté ​Spring 2023
      • Letitia Jiju ​Spring 2023
      • E.W.I. Johnson ​Spring 2023
      • Ashley Kunsa ​Spring 2023
      • Susanna Lang ​Spring 2023
      • James Fujinami Moore Spring 2023
      • Matthew Murrey Spring 2023
      • Pablo Otavalo Spring 2023
      • Heather Qin ​Spring 2023
      • Wesley Sexton ​Spring 2023
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      • Sara Sowers-Wills ​Spring 2023
      • Sydney Vogl ​Spring 2023
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