Editor’s note: This poem is part of the Work and Hope series. In the quiet, we humbly remember the foundation
Shannon McKeehen
Shannon McKeehen is a Quaker, writer, and educator whose poems have appeared in such journals as The Cedarville Review, The Guide to Kulchur - Cleveland, Et Cetera, and other places. Her chapbooks Barbra in Shadow and Just a Trick of the Light are available online and in print; for more information, see her website at www.shannonmckeehen.com. She teaches in Ohio, where she also lives with her husband and their two cats.
After Proverbs 9 I. A very long time ago, Wisdom had built herself a house -- and after, she tended
