I have a real affinity for poems that contrast teachings about God with the experience of God, and for poems about talking with God.

The middle section is just wonderful ...

So this one's interesting: it's a four-letter word.

I'm not getting a lot of clues from the punctuation.

A few phrases catching my eye:

Not a lot of interesting punctuation to go on,

However, some clues I'm picking up (I think):

Like yesterday, I don't have a lot of interesting punctuation to go on, so I'll try to use some common words and see if I can get this solved reasonably quickly.

There is some interesting punctuation:

Yet another one that's not giving me much to go on.

So today I think I'll try some topic words - I bet I'll get a lot of 0 results, but maybe it'll point me in the right direction.

System is usually a pretty reliable word; 7 hits - and hmm, "of the █████ system" sure makes me think solar system. But no; 0 hits for solar.

This is another one that's not giving me much to go on.

So I'll start with some fairly common words, once again trying to go a little faster than I sometimes have in the past.

many and all show up in most articles, and we do get a few hits here. Nothing for perimeter, which I tried just because of all the outside and inside visible words.

Some random guesses: type and first - oh, but I guessed square up there to go with perimeter, and that gave me only 3 hits, but one of them is

When I think of dictionaries, I think of Merriam-Webster; I don't know why, but it's probably because of the presence of Webster in the name.

But when reading the poem "Now What," I wanted to look up the word relief, and after first going to the Merriam-Webster site (and being slightly surprised by the first definition, which seemed obscure), I got curious about what the hive mind at MetaFilter had to say about dictionaries.

This one isn't giving me a lot of immediate ideas to go on, so I might just try to brute-force my way through some common words to see if they give me any hints.

I've been spending a little more time on Redactle than I'd like (I mean, it's fun, and I'm learning some stuff, and I enjoy watching how I think), so I might try to do this one a little more quickly.

I think this is the first poem of Sharif's I've read.

Her use of the word relief made me go look it up in a dictionary to learn all its meanings.

I can't remember the last time I read about tanners; it reminds me of learning about Butcher Town in San Francisco, a neighborhood and a time I've come across only rarely in reading about the history of the city.

The quick, almost abrupt ending is such a shift from the rest of the poem, that long history and then sudden (but also long, just compressed) change.

This one looks a little more challenging - I'm not immediately seeing a lot of patterns or phrases that suggest anything - except for "from the ██████ up" in the last sentence, which suggests ground or bottom.

Bottom has no hits; it's ground.