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A man knelt across the street outside the Emanuel A.M.E. Church after a shooting on Wednesday in Charleston, S.C.
Wade Spees/The Post and Courier, via Associated Press
President Barack Obama called the nine deaths in a Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting “particularly heartbreaking,” and suggested a greater focus on gun control was necessary in the wake of the tragedy.
“We as a people will have to reckon with the fact that this kind of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries,” Obama said. “It is within our power to do something about it.” – CNN
Charleston Church Shooting Leaves 9 Dead; Gunman Identified – The New York Times.
Wallace Stevens house, Westerly Terrace, West Hartford, CT
You want to learn about prayer?
Walk these forests and fields.
All of the green in the world
bending
towards the light.
2011
Scarecrow
PRAYER
Too old to breathe,
hook me up to
a poem. No
artificial
respirator,
please. Let me breathe
poems, let poems
breathe me. Let light,
darkness, settle
as all-embracing
clarity. Let
there be song when
there is no me.
Scott Watson