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    The Journey: Poems
    The Journey: Poems
    The Journey: Poems
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    The Journey: Poems

    By Anna Cates

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    Where did we come from? Where will we go after we die? What is the nature of God? Humanity, in all its faiths, has struggled with such questions. Through each individual poem, The Journey offers windows through which to view our human conceptualizations of the divine and our relationship to a cosmic creator. While we may see through that glass darkly, hope remains to one day see face-to-face.
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    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateMar 4, 2020
    ISBN9781725259904
    The Journey: Poems
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    Anna Cates

    Anna Cates is an adjunct professor of writing, literature, and education. She is the author of The Meaning of Life (2015), The Frog King (2015), The Darkroom: Poems (2017), The Golem & the Nazi (2019), The Journey (2020), Love in the Time of Covid (2021), and The Poison Tree: A Peace Play (2022).

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      The Journey

      Poems

      Anna Cates

      The Journey

      Poems

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      Anna Cates. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers,

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      For Freddie, Fifi, & Tom Cat

      God is the perfect poet.

      —Robert Browning

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

      VENUS OF WILLENDORF

      ATLANTIS

      ACLLA

      PI

      AFTER

      CHICKEN BINGO

      GODS & FATE

      LOVE & MYTH

      TIME & BEING

      THE TRIAL OF MITHRAS

      ROMAN HOLIDAY

      THEY DID NOT DANCE, NOR DID THEY SING

      INVOCATION OF THE GODS

      THE UNATTACHED

      VIGNETTE

      HASKALAH

      BOOK OF THE DEAD

      SACRED WORLD

      THE ELUSIVE QUEST

      THE SEEKER

      MOVING ON

      IN THE GARDEN

      EXEGESIS ON GENESIS

      THE FROG PRINCE

      IN THE GARDEN

      MEDUSA*

      DELILAH

      SIGN OF JONAH

      MARTYRDOM

      SMUG GLEE

      ALTERNATIVE NEWS

      STRANGER

      A LITERARY PILGRIM’S PROGRESS

      JUST MARRIED

      OF OAKS AND BULLETS

      QUESTION

      JOHN

      THE NATURE OF THE BEAST

      THE GOLEM & THE NAZI

      GYPSY

      DEATH MARCHES

      GOOD FRIDAY

      SCRAWLINGS AFTER A DREAM

      THE NATURE OF THE BEAST

      RAPUNZEL

      ONLY THE WICKED

      THE JOURNEY

      PILGRIM

      THE UNVEILING

      PANDORA’S BOX

      MASQUERADE

      PEDESTAL

      JEHU ISLAND

      HERE THERE BE DRAGONS

      PROTOGE

      ON PONY GIRLS AND GARGOYLES

      ONLY THE WICKED (a rondeau)

      CONFESSION

      RAG DOLL (a villanelle)

      THE NAKED ONION

      BEHOLD THE WIZARD

      FATHER

      STATUS QUO

      SOMBER MUSINGS

      FLIGHT

      THE HAPPY GUY

      THE MEASURE

      WHEN I AWAKE

      WHERE THE BUTTERFLY ROAMS

      THE APOCALYPSE

      THE SECOND COMING

      THE ESCHATOLOGIST

      THE END

      TUNDRA

      THE EMPTY URN

      NEVER DIE

      TWILIGHT SERENITY twilight serenity settling deep inside the lobster- man’s pith

      THE WEED-FILLED PATH

      EPILOGUE

      TAU

      WHERE THE BUTTERFLY ROAMS

      Bibliography

      Acknowledgements

      Many thanks to the editors of the publications in which these poems first appeared:

      Scryptic: The Apocalypse, The Frog Prince, Tundra, Never Die, Where the Butterfly Roams, Confession, Jehu Island

      Angry Old Man: Pi

      Voice of Eve: Masquerade, Medusa, The Naked Onion, Only the Wicked, Ragdoll, Pandora’s Box (and a similar poem in Eucalypt)

      Soft Cartel: Rapunzel

      Anti-Heroin Chic: Pedestal

      The Disappointed Housewife: Sign of Jonah

      Otoliths: Atlantis, On Pony Girls & Gargoyles, The Seeker, The Elusive Quest, After, Exegesis on Genesis, Smug Glee

      Mock Turtle: The Weed-Filled Path, The Journey

      Sheila-Na-Gig: Venus of Willendorf

      Immanence: Aclla

      Ibbetson Street: The Measure

      Moon: The Empty Urn, The Eschatologist

      Bamboo Hut (a similar poem): The Unveiling

      Al-Khemia Poetica: In the Garden

      Blueline: Epilogue

      Bleached Butterfly: Book of the Dead, "Scrawlings after a

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