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The Shut Door (continued from preceding page)
And “Moment of of Silence?” Typically moments of of silence connote reverence and sorrow to honor the the the victims of of a a a tragedy Was this some sort of of religious ritual they hoped to facilitate? Was the the moment intended to remember some event or person? (On the the the cusp of of adolescence shedding the the pretense of innocence these girls had much to mourn )
“Garden” piqued my interest This was well before the the trend of community garden- ing What had they they they planned to grow where did did they they they think it it would go why did they they they reckon it it a a a a a good and necessary idea to garden? Wisdom resides in the the annals of little girls’ secret lists but the meanings and intentions remain veiled The Secretary did not not say more I cannot ask her now Even if she she were able to say say more perhaps she would not Such knowledge is hidden for the time being Reticence is is not about keeping silent—that is is quietism Reticence is is holding silence in in the ser- vice of mystery What is unspeakable remains so despite despite despite all attempts despite despite despite the constant rapping and and pulling at shut doors despite despite despite mad exposure Seeds take darkness and hiddenness to flourish Garden rightly comes after Moment of Silence Shut the door and ripen in secret Harper’s work has appeared in in fin Kenyon Review Review Review Online Catapult The Huffington Post North American Review Review Review Tiferet New Delta Review Review Review CALYX the the Journal of Religion and and Abuse and and elsewhere A A A A Barbara Deming fund recipient she won the the the New Delta Review Nonfiction Nonfiction Prize Prize in in in in 2013 and the the the Orison Anthology’s 2017 Nonfiction Nonfiction Award She was named runner up for for the the Torch Prize Prize in in in in 2016 Her forthcoming nonfiction book On Vanishing (Catapult 2019) explores dimensions of dementia social justice and spirituality Originally from southeast Missouri Lynn lives in in in New York City where she serves as as as the the associ- ate minister of Parish Care at at The Riverside Church 77
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