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Recorded Reading (1:14): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/shg0i24d4f8iz9hf5ht7y/Stone-Soup.mp3?rlkey=d6rla16r3auy7sxaq2hase7cy&dl=0

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Stone Soup

You may keep your secrets
Or tell them to the wall
I’m not interested
In having secrets at all

You feel need to keep your wisdom
From your fellow man
So you might come wealthier
To be, think yourself “better than”

It doesn’t seem this poet to
It would be other than great good
To banish every secret
From the human neighborhood

What is it that you’re so freaked out
Thinking I might see?
Where does miserliness fit in
To your Christianity?

It wasn’t for the bottom line
Nor for mere selfish wishes
The miracle was granted
Of the loaves and fishes

Instead, the few existing scraps
Of that nourishment for,
Baring teeth and fingernails ~
Another human war,

Example made there was of that which
Happens when we pause before
Harnessing the force of love:
Suddenly, there is ~ just ~ more!

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This poet presently lives at a fraction of her nation’s poverty level.

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