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| Scott Webb |
Let Us Praise
the quiet task
that does not shout
its name to the world.
Dried plates,
dishing up
no status.
Raked leaves,
not falling, as we do,
for piling up
prestige.
Walls that stand,
not by themselves,
but because of where
they’ve joined.
Tea bowls,
silently waiting,
allowing what
enters them
to expand.
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| Daniel Skach-Mills |
A 2026 Pushcart Prize nominee, Daniel Skach-Mills’s poetry is forthcoming in The Pensive Journal and Wild Roof Review. His book, The Hut Beneath the Pine: Tea Poems, was a 2012 Oregon Book Award finalist. A former Trappist monk, Daniel lives with his husband in Portland, Oregon, where he served for 15 years as a docent at Lan Su Chinese Garden. He was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer in 2024.
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