poem Our Lady of Mercy, a twitter-length poem about how a Missionary in India has broken glass bottles on the roof edges to stop burglars or vandals from entering illegally, with the last lines quoting the Carolyn Forché prose poem “the Colonel”, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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Our Lady of Mercy
Janet Kuypers
(last lines quote Carolyn Forché’s prose poem “the Colonel”)
twitter-length poem,12/7/13

“Our Lady of Mercy” India Missionary
topped their building
with broken glass bottles
to scoop the kneecaps
or cut a man’s hands to lace

photograph in India by John Yotko 12/6/13

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem Our Lady of Mercy from cc&d magazine, in the book and Then he Moved live 8/27/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (S)

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