Sometimes (excerpt) – Christine Valters Paintner

Sometimes (excerpt)

Sometimes I awake
and read the news,

and want to hold the world
as far away as possible.

— Christine Valters Paintner, PhD Love Holds You: Poems and Devotions for Times of Uncertainty (forthcoming from Paraclete Press May 9th!)

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