"Taking Down the Tree," by Jane Kenyon
From "The Color Purple," by Alice Walker
"Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front," by Wendell Berry
"God's Grandeur," by Gerard Manley Hopkins and "Blandeur," by Kay Ryan
"Praying Hands" by Ted Kooser
"The World I Live In," by Mary Oliver
"I Was Reading a Scientific Article," by Margaret Atwood
"A Reward," by Denise Levertov
"A Child at the Circus," by Anne Porter
"Singapore," by Mary Oliver
From “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman
