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David Pettit

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Release from the Random

We’ve all seen the stories and the videos on social media. The police officer who pulls someone over in a sketchy neighborhood, and then to

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In Search of Surprise

By David Pettit The problem with many poems, my instructor explained, is certainty. The poet tries too hard to say something; is too sure of

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Watching the Water

by David Pettit I tie flies in the spring. One can actually fish year round in Colorado. But I learned my rhythms on eastern streams.

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Eulogy: Dody

by David Pettit The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still

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Eulogies: Jack

by David Pettit On these summer Sundays, I invite you to think about lives and what they have meant. To think not with a pietistic

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Eulogies: Amy

by David Pettit On these summer Sundays, I invite you to think about lives and what they have meant. To think not with a pietistic

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Inurnment

by David Pettit On these summer Sundays, I invite you to think about lives and what they have meant. To think not with a pietistic

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Eulogies: Ed

by David Pettit On these summer Sundays, I invite you to think about lives and what they have meant. To think not with a pietistic

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Eulogies: Evelyn

by David Pettit On these summer Sundays, I invite you to think about lives and what they have meant. To think not with a pietistic

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