in the New Testament that God notes even the fall of a single sparrow and to the quotation from Hamlet assuring us that 'there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow,' this poem speculates about the divine benevolence that we sometimes feel we are promised and those provisions we, by instinct or 'prescience,' make for ourselves. The poem consists, then, of 'notes' on the swiftness of fate and the presence of grace."[by Marjorie Stelmach]
Grace Notes
If a sparrow dies in flight, the sky
from Walter Bargen: The Post-Dispatch: Missouri Poets: Marjorie Stelmach
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