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For Jane, On Her Nephew's Birthday Shannon Hardwick (bio) —After Jane Cooper And your poems did allow for the unseen,the unnoticed truth of others—uncoveredjust so, just as the girl paused mid-thought, mid-bite, and yet,who lent their ears to your secret, your triple-locked door,your tunneling hour before the room suddenly spilled white?That the Winter Road led you to St. Malo,and your father's parachute—his blue on blue on blue,how it rolled off your tongue like windbefore your journey was to begin.For you, Jane—a kaleidoscope of comfort, an eternal field of stars.For your legacy—it belongs to the unwanted, the unseen—humanity.What you made of it—your lifeblood, your little blue anchors of truth:they survive in our future,our long canyon, our echoing sea. [End Page 88] Shannon Hardwick Shannon Hardwick's work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Gulf Coast Journal, The Texas Observer, The Missouri Review, Four Way Review, Salamander, Sixth Finch, and Passages North, among others. Hardwick serves as the Editor-in-Chief at The Boiler Journal. Copyright © 2023 Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life
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