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Peter Cooley

Poetry

Spring 2007

Afterwords

By Peter Cooley

Now I will speak about unquiet things here in the hurricane's black aftermath. But first let me describe the whitening sky which greeted me, the day after the storm, How […]

Poetry

Spring 2007

To Christ Our Lord

By Peter Cooley

This tiny corner of the fallen world given to me that I can keep in place the north where it first meets the broken east, site of the sun, staggering […]

Poetry

Winter 1998

Incantation

By Peter Cooley

I am in prayer! I tell myself tonight, my body returning me from my fall through windows in myself I never saw a way out of until this minute. And […]