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IN THESE TIMES, EMILY, NO <\/span><\/p>\n by Janet McCann<\/p>\n Tell all the truth but tell it slant<\/em> \u2014 Emily Dickinson<\/p>\n Tell it bent, No, tell it as a fishhook Tell it as drawn blood Tell it as a sword Tell it as a scream Tell it as a siren Don\u2019t hide it in gardens, Spell it ###<\/p>\n Journals publishing Janet McCann\u2019s work include KANSAS QUARTERLY, PARNASSUS, NIMROD, SOU’WESTER, AMERICA, CHRISTIAN CENTURY, CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE, NEW YORK QUARTERLY, TENDRIL, and others. A 1989 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship winner, she taught at Texas A & M University from 1969-2016, is now Professor Emerita. She has co-edited anthologies with David Craig, ODD ANGLES OF HEAVEN (Shaw, 1994), PLACE OF PASSAGE (Story Line, 2000), and POEMS OF FRANCIS AND CLARE (St. Anthony Messenger, 2004). Most recent poetry collection: THE CRONE AT THE CASINO (Lamar University Press, 2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Journals publishing Janet McCann\u2019s work include KANSAS QUARTERLY, PARNASSUS, NIMROD, SOU’WESTER, AMERICA, CHRISTIAN CENTURY, CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE, NEW YORK QUARTERLY, TENDRIL, and others<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,436],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems-about-truth","category-poems-about-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\nrefracted in an oblique lens?<\/p>\n
\ncaught in smug corpulence<\/p>\n
\nLabel the dark red vials<\/p>\n
\nmightier than the pen<\/p>\n
\nhalf an inch from a sleeping ear<\/p>\n
\na snapped shriek<\/p>\n
\nbejewel it, dress it in silk<\/p>\n
\nTell it
\nYell it<\/p>\n