Today’s Poem: Fides, Spes

Willa Cather as poet

Pacific dogwood (Wikimedia Commons)

We know Willa Cather (1873–1947) primarily as a novelist and master of the short story. Her fiction, set in unsparing American landscapes, finds lyricism in those landscapes and in the visionary people whose lives unfold there: priests, artists, ordinary men and women who long for more beauty, love, and meaning than th…