Jean Valentine Breath Poems

  • 1.
    to be, you Only who are,
    you nobody from nowhere,
    without one sin or one good quality,
    without one book, without one word,
    ...
  • 2.
    People pray to each other. The way I say 'you' to someone else,
    respectfully, intimately, desperately. The way someone says
    'you' to me, hopefully, expectantly, intensely ...
    -Huub Oosterhuis
    ...
Total 2 Breath Poems by Jean Valentine

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Joan Sidney: Jean was a great poet, an incredibly caring human being, and a wonderful teacher. Her passing is a great loss to all of us. I met her in 2012 at the Artist’s Colony.

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