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Mary Virginia Micka
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“Counting both times I cheated this week / I won at solitaire twice.”
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“Oh, the cats in this town have their secrets.”
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“... say / who I am. Set / our two fires climbing.”
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“Does God sing?”
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“To lift off the cover of a tomato-y mixture and let it bubble up mushroom and basil under my nose does a lot to counteract the many subtle efforts a part of me makes to punish myself for all those worst of my shortcomings — those I can neither name nor find a shape for. Terrible brown ghosts with sinews like bedsprings.”
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“It isn't that I believe God is dead, but God is so silent, has been for so long, and is so hidden, I take it as a sign I must watch in other places or simply tend my small fires until the end.”
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“When you look up from your typewriter, look at the trees, not the calendar.”
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“... I'm part of an old piety that suffers in silence and calls it virtue. And is the very devil to live with.”
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“It is while trying to get everything straight in my head that I get confused.”
Mary Virginia Micka, U.S. poet, educator
(1922)
Sister Mary Virginia Micka belongs to the Congregation of St. Joseph.