No Man’s Land: Poems
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Logan C. Jones
Logan C. Jones, EdD, is a Supervisor of Clinical Pastoral Education and works in a hospital as chaplain and Director of Pastoral Care Services. Ordained in the Moravian Church in America, he is the author of No Man's Land: Poems (2014) and several articles on pastoral care and pastoral supervision. He and his wife live in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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No Man’s Land - Logan C. Jones
No Man’s Land
Poems
Logan C. Jones
No Man’s Land
Poems
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To Kelli
We would rather be ruined than changed
—W. H. Auden
You must change your life
—Rainer Maria Rilke
Acknowledgments
I thank the editors of the following publications in which the poems below previously appeared.
Healing Ministry: To Speak of Fire
; End-Stage
Hobart Park: Bach Will Be Enough
The Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling: The Antidote to Pain
; James and Bessie Tate
; God Bless You, Mary Oliver
Main Street Rag: No Man’s Land
The Progressive Christian: Revolution
; Under a Full Moon on Christmas Eve
; The Other Advent
; Elvis Has Left the Building
(originally titled Elvis is Dead . . . Really
)
No Man’s Land
The old farm house seemed huge,
mansion-like in all its secrets and
out-buildings with their weathered boards.
His room was upstairs
where it was hot and musty,
bathed in a yellow haze of light.
An old trunk kept his gas mask,
cartridge belt, and helmet.
The helmet carried a dent
from a sniper’s bullet
or so the story went in the family.
These war relics made for