No real mystery, Michael. I think I found it on Duotrope because I had a couple of poems that I thought might go in a religious publication like this one, and Duotrope has a category, "Religious," you can click in. "Dappled Things" was one of the selections that came up and sounded like a good bet.
As for why the poem is truncated, I'm not sure. Maybe it's just length (it's a pretty long poem)--but I like the idea of an unbeliever detector. Maybe it's the Vatican II idea that I might get to heaven but it will be in spite of my ideas on spirituality rather than because of them. So they can't give full press to the poem, at least not on the internet (it's all there in the print version).
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