Poetry.
What a gift it is to see the world filtered through th. "\'The definition of metaphor/ is the transfer of burden, so pay attention.\' This, the opening stanza of Maggie Blake Bailey\'s VISITATION, gives us a taste of what\'s to come: the body \'an advent calendar;\' \'each church a brick leaning against the night.\' Bailey\'s metaphors are at once startling and just-right, and her themes--motherhood, place, faith, and the narratives we carry from childhood into our adult lives--are timeless.
Poetry