Jan Lee Ande's books include Reliquary (Texas Review Press, 2003) and Instructions for Walking on Water (Ashland Poetry Press, 2001). Her poems appear in Image, Agni, The Antioch Review, Mississippi Review, Notre Dame Review, New Letters, and the anthologies Francis and Clare in Poetry (St. Anthony Messenger Press) and Place of Passage (Story Line Press). Her poem "The Second Text" was also published in this issue of The Other Journal.
In this poem, Jan Lee Ande reminds us that even on “ordinary mornings” we can learn from nature, “that other text written by the finger of God.”
In this poem, Jan Lee Ande imagines the dictionary as a sacrarium and its words as our clerics, our stepstones to the divine.
