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Featured Poem: An Old Sidewalk

By Ted Kooser THE PASSING YEARS have broken it over the knees of tree roots, those of great maples raining shade, and of crippled elms whose leaves in August turn to a lace that sifts the heat. And the breaks have filled with mold from which frail seedlings, already with bark like their parents, hold up green banners of hope. For sixty or maybe … Read More Featured Poem: An Old Sidewalk