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    Leaving Lumberton
    Leaving Lumberton
    Leaving Lumberton
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    Leaving Lumberton

    By Sheryl Slocum

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    Lumberton is a real town in an area historically denuded by clear-cut logging where the abused spirit of the land pervaded both place and people. The poems in this book explore various kinds of abuse and spiritual impoverishment as well as growth of awareness and healing. The journey from desolation toward wholeness proceeds in ordinary ways: waiting quietly like a bare field under a wide sky, noticing the budding lilac, or simply taking the next first step. We can leave our Lumbertons.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateDec 20, 2022
    ISBN9781666759952
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      Leaving Lumberton - Sheryl Slocum

      Leaving Lumberton

      Sheryl Slocum

      Leaving Lumberton

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      Sheryl Slocum. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers,

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      paperback isbn: 978-1-6667-5993-8

      hardcover isbn: 978-1-6667-5994-5

      ebook isbn: 978-1-6667-5995-2

      11/09/22

      Sheryl Slocum, Gravel, was first published in The Perch, a creative arts journal of the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health, a program of the Yale School of Medicine.

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Honors, and Acknowledgements

      Stumps

      I Watched the Devil Eat an Orange

      Betrayed

      The White Frame House by the Road

      Sisyphus and His Boulder

      His Rig

      The Pair

      Control

      Exorcism at the Old Orphanage

      Gravel

      Refugees

      Combat Veteran

      Small Church

      The Landfill

      Winter Moon and Tree

      Flood

      Hurricane Mitch

      Near Sauk City, Wisconsin

      The Drowned

      Frost

      Cemeteries

      Turning

      St. Paul’s, K Street

      At the Point

      Crossroads

      Suicide Bomber

      At Soldier’s Gunpoint

      Crossing the Red Sea

      After Evensong

      Infant’s Hands

      First of Winter

      Venus’s Voyage

      Upon Leaving a Daughter at College in Boston

      Visiting Colonial Virginia

      Alzheimer’s Jonah

      Fighting Fire

      Farewelling Randy

      Rebecca at the End

      The Renaming of Jacob

      The Great Vigil

      Thomas Merton

      The Wake

      Thief in the Night

      Repentance

      Germination

      Moving On

      Above Lumberton with Judy

      The Morada

      At the River Crescent

      Gravity

      House Blessing

      Attuned

      Mardi Gras in Wisconsin

      Cloudburst

      Thaw

      Persephone’s Return

      Just a Sprig of Lilac

      Double in White

      Eucharist in Ashland, Wisconsin

      Minaret

      Girl and Truck

      Writer

      When in Your Garden Poets Recite

      Runner I

      My Life as a Bullet

      Runner II

      Lone Skateboarder

      Baltimore Oriole

      Fountain

      Hopscotch

      Fly Fishing

      This book is dedicated in gratitude

      to the Hartford Avenue Poets:

      You are critics, coaches, cheerleaders, and friends.

      What more could a poet want?

      Honors, and Acknowledgements

      Honors received by poems in this volume:

      •2019 Honorable Mention, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Triad History Theme Contest: Near Sauk City, Wisconsin

      •2018 Sundress Best of the

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