This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Jeffrey Essmann. Fasting I’m not complaining I should sayRight off. In fact, I rather likeThe hunger in an abstruse way;Anticipate its subtle spikeAt 3:00 or 4:00 each afternoonAnd tell myself I’m eating soonBut meantime feel the hollow gnawAnd sense in it some deeper law:The law […]

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