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For My Son, Reading Harry Potter by Michael Blumenthal

October 21, 2020

How lovely, to be lost
as you are now
in someone else’s thoughts
an imagined world
of witchcraft, wizardry and clans
that takes you in so utterly
all the ceaseless background noise
of life’s insistent pull and drag soon fades
and you are left, a young boy
captured in attention’s undivided daze…MORE…

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Bishop Anthony Burton is the retired Bishop of Saskatchewan.

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