Bruce Bond, a finalist in Narrative’s Fourteenth and Sixteenth Annual Poetry Contests, is the author of numerous books, including Plurality and the Poetics of Self; Words Written Against the Walls of the City; The Calling; Patmos, winner of the Juniper Prize; Liberation of Dissonance (Schaffner, 2022), winner of the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Literature in Music; Choreomania; (MadHat, 2022); and Invention of the Wilderness (Louisiana State University, 2022). Bond is Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas.

Grace

by Bruce Bond

So much loneliness is the pretext of fable,

                            tell me.
                                          Does charity need us
              to suffer the confusion of stars
                                          before we pin our gods to them.


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