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Carolyn Marie Rodgers

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I gave this world a song. …

Carolyn Marie Rodgers

one knee turned against …

Carolyn Marie Rodgers

cradle of the Black Madonna, oh …

Carolyn Marie Rodgers

“she yielding of Senses” …

Carolyn Marie Rodgers

what we …

Carolyn Marie Rodgers

Spoons of love and …

Carolyn Marie Rodgers

Sometimes, …

Carolyn Marie Rodgers

The spirit is so hurt …

Carolyn Marie Rodgers

Like a car that wouldn’t go, I …

Carolyn Marie Rodgers

She might as well have been …

Carolyn Marie Rodgers

something inside …

Carolyn Marie Rodgers

and we are singing our hearts out, and …

Carolyn Marie Rodgers

a pigeon festival of bread crumbs. …

Carolyn Marie Rodgers

and flesh had breath. a soul began to be. the rise and eve’s of my …

Carolyn Marie Rodgers

The spirits …

Carolyn Marie Rodgers

i wrote of dawn as the new beginning on earth. …

Carolyn Marie Rodgers

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