Poets/Scott Cairns

Scott Cairns

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A vacant lot, maybe, but even such lit vacancy …

Scott Cairns

She said God. He seems to be there …

Scott Cairns

You could almost think the word synonymous …

Scott Cairns

It was when he said expansively There is …

Scott Cairns

The air is cool and is right thick with birdsong …

Scott Cairns

For near is where you’ll meet what you have wandered …

Scott Cairns

This morning the world’s white face reminds us …

Scott Cairns

You’ll need a corpse, your own or someone else’s. …

Scott Cairns

The cave itself is pleasantly austere, …

Scott Cairns

What I notice first within …

Scott Cairns

Each morning we begin again. My wife …

Scott Cairns

O Being both far distant and most near, …

Scott Cairns

A psalm of Isaak, accompanied by Jew's harp. …

Scott Cairns

And the few willing to listen demanded that we confess on television. …

Scott Cairns

Of Love’s discrete occasions, we …

Scott Cairns

Not your ordinary ice cream, though the glaze …

Scott Cairns

Your petitions—though they continue to bear …

Scott Cairns

He did not fall then, blind upon a road, …

Scott Cairns

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