Kathy Evans, Author at Dialogue Journal

Unfinished Sestina for the Secretary of Defense

Articles/Essays – Volume 17, No. 4

We were inside the world.
The children were sleeping.
Light fell through the window.
One of us wore red.

Returning

Articles/Essays – Volume 18, No. 1

Mouth over the reed,
you empty your feelings
into the hollow heart.
These are the pieces left:

For the Bishop’s Wife

Articles/Essays – Volume 19, No. 2

Some of us stood together
on your star-gray lawn,
sang you Christmas carols
in the warm California air.

Nativity

Articles/Essays – Volume 19, No. 4

The eyes of the beasts shine into my own.
The archangel’s hair is on fire. I stumble
through the mudprints of cows and ewes
toward the damp side of the cave

Here’s the Church

Articles/Essays – Volume 21, No. 4

While the organist pumped
“Let Us All Press on in the Work of the Lord,”
and the chorister napped her arms
like a whooping crane, and some sat there