“We could no longer be threatened into submission or be stared into repentance. Their hope was that as we feared them less, we would fear God more.” Steven Willis reads his poem “Exodus 20:12 KJV” included in his collection, A Peculiar People (Button Poetry, 2022), in this video from the Button Studio in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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