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Editors’ Picks Issue 19
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Litanies of Reclamation
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The Children of Pyongyang
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Cancilde and Emmanuel
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A Trio of Lenten Readers
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Michael and Margaretha Sattler
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The Blessed Woman of Nazareth
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New Heaven, New War
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Born to Us
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My Fearless Future
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Covering the Cover: School for Life
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The Community of Education
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Readers Respond: Issue 19
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Family and Friends: Issue 19
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Verena Arnold
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Tundra Swans
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A Debt to Education
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What’s the Good of a School?
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A School of One
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On Praying for Your Children
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The World Is Your Classroom
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The Good Reader
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Orchestras of Change
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The Habit of Lack Is Hell to Break
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Kindergarten
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![On the most westerly blasket, in a dry-stone hut](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2019/19winterschool/19peters/q19petersembed1.gif?la=en)
![He got this air out of the night](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2019/19winterschool/19peters/q19petersembed2.gif?la=en)
![Strange noises were heard by others who followed, bits of a tune coming in on loud weather](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2019/19winterschool/19peters/q19petersembed3.gif?la=en)
![Though nothing like melody. He blamed their fingers and ear as unpracticed, their fiddling easy](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2019/19winterschool/19peters/q19petersembed4.gif?la=en)
![for he had gone alone into the island, and brought back the whole thing](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2019/19winterschool/19peters/q19petersembed5.gif?la=en)
![The house throbbed like his full violin](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2019/19winterschool/19peters/q19petersembed6.gif?la=en)
![So whether he calls it spirit music or not, I don't care. He took it](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2019/19winterschool/19peters/q19petersembed7.gif?la=en)
![Out of wind off the mid-atlantic](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2019/19winterschool/19peters/q19petersembed8.gif?la=en)
![Still he maintains, from nowhere](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2019/19winterschool/19peters/q19petersembed9.gif?la=en)
![It comes off the bow gravely,](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2019/19winterschool/19peters/q19petersembed10.gif?la=en)
![Rephrases itself into the air.](/-/media/images/plough/quarterly/2019/19winterschool/19peters/q19petersembed11.gif?la=en)
“The Given Note” from Seamus Heaney, Door into the Dark (London: Faber & Faber, 1969). Used with permission.
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Diantha L Zschoche
I fell in love with Ecphasis many years ago after a work shop I attended. I am a poet so I often let my words capture the voice or a painting or music, etc. I look forward to seeing more of his work.
Christina
Beautiful! Thank you.