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    Let Them Grow

    By Robert W. Crawford

    February 27, 2024
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    For my grandsons

    to someday stumble on the circumstance
    of love, lie back, and in the quiet, try
    to give shy thanks for all its providence.
    I pray they’ll need not know such things as, by
    its sound, the caliber of ordnance.

     

    Elicia Edijanto, In the Wind

    Elicia Edijanto, In the Wind, graphite on paper, 2022. Used by permission.


    This poem was shortlisted for the Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award in 2023. Find out how to enter your poems here.

    Contributed By Robert W. Crawford Robert W. Crawford

    Robert W. Crawford has published two books of poetry and is the Director of Frost Farm Poetry at the Robert Frost Farm.

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