The land goes on like mercy, out and around forever

"For the Sake of One We Love, and Are Losing" by Phyllis Cole-Dai

As Phyllis Cole-Dai sees it, she is more a “custodian” of the poem “For the Sake of One We Love and Are Losing” than she is its author.

“I think of it as one of those that were gifted to me,” she said recently. “I really didn’t want to take credit for it.”

The now widely traveled, meditative, at times incantatory, poem, after all, owes its existence more…