Poet’s Sampler: Ann Marie Thornburg

Owen Barfield wrote of the “felt change of consciousness” that occurs when a reader encounters a true poem. I read poems every day longing to experience that, and when I read Ann Marie Thornburg’s, I do.

A Storm

Mercy

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