Five Poems

“Spirits,” “The Priest at the Pool Party,” “A McDonald’s in Middle America,” “Joy,” and “Land’s End”

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“Spirits,” “The Priest at the Pool Party,” “A McDonald’s in Middle America,” “Joy,” and “Land’s End”

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Christian Wiman teaches at Yale Divinity School. He is the author most recently of Survival Is a Style.

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