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778 Dot Gibbs Welcome to the enchanted world of Louisville’s Dot Gibbs, who, while her husband was busy as an executive with a large printing company, spent her time seeing God in such ordinary things as sweet pea vines, dragonfly wings, and green peas in pods. Her companion in literary history may well be William Blake—the one who wrote “The Lamb” and “The Tyger.” Here is a sampling of the epiphanies that Dot Gibbs found in nature and made into poems. h “Spinning Threads as Spiders Do” You know how the sweet pea vine spins green threads like curly pig tails to twine around fences and grape vines spin tails to hold grapes high for the sun to warm and ripen to purple, red and green I seek morning beauty and the soft twilight spinning threads around beauty with mind and heart strings Man from earth’s dust began let’s gather and around the fence twine this flowered May Day of spring and of the wonder of sweet peas sing. “Dragonfly Wings” Making dragonfly wings is one of God’s most beautiful things and laying green peas in pods. ...

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