Poem of the Week

Jenny George is the winner of a Discovery Poetry Prize and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize. She earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Santa Fe, where she helps run a foundation for Buddhist-based social justice.

Easter

by Jenny George

They say it is the soul that rises, not the body.
But the body does rise—

Overhead, in the spring wind
trees are touching each other
with quiet gestures.
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