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In The Marsh

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July 5, 2024
Moonlit Night. Marsh, Aleksey Savrasov, 1870

Dan Schwerin’s poetry comes from life on a farm or…

No one knows
why I fight
windmills in
starry crusades.
A walk through
the marsh leaves me
muddied by the Tao
I’ve been raking.
Fireflies light
the darkness
without getting it
on their wings.

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Dan Schwerin’s poetry comes from life on a farm or making his rounds across thirty plus years as a pastor in Wisconsin, and now as the bishop of the Northern Illinois Conference of The United Methodist Church. His debut haiku collection, ORS, from red moon press, won the Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award in 2016. You can find him on Twitter @SchwerinDan.

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