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Vol. 10, No. 2: Summer 2004

Aspiration and Varieties of Religious Experience

by Lynn Powell

“I saw God, my son once told me. He lives in a field of snow. What could you see? Just snow. And footprints.”

“Aspiration”
Chattanooga, Tennessee

Farther south they call it hog jowl.
Up north they call it salt pork.
But we called it streaked meat—

This article appears as an abstract above, the complete article can be accessed in Project Muse
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