Book shops offer us civilizationsDemocracies of the living and the dead -Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, and youOver cups of coffee wrangling meter and rhyme Book shops offer us civilizations James Weldon Johnson, Keats, and Claude…
J.R. R. Tolkien, the noted English don and author of The Lord of the Rings, wrote that, as “a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic”, he did “not expect “history” to be anything but a…
“…they have failed to tell the truth, preferring a safe distance” ~ Yevtushenko Maybe I disappoint, but now I preferThat safe distance Yevtushenko condemnedBecause in media res all is chaosThe immediacy of emotion and pain The best…
Sweet melancholy, hangs in the air, visions of colors and dance.Wild lands, mountains, rivers to cross.Not yet! No! Take that chance.Crisp smelling leaves fall to the ground, gliding through the woods.Adventures, new chances, the ominous…
Ocean waves lapping on a lonely shore;they cause deep stirrings within.My soul drifts toward this natural call,and I move from a place herein.The wind through the trees when leaves are no more;whispers of something unspoken.It…
One of my grandmother's favorite medieval Catholics was, as it happens, St. Bernard of Clairvaux. He wasn’t the only Catholic she admired, but he was perhaps the only medieval or post-medieval canonized saint who meant a…
Crinkly, wrinkly pages in a missalThey’re water-stained – how did that come to be?Maybe it was when the bishop visitedAnd sloshed us with his shaky aspergillum Or when an infant at her baptismProtested the proceedings…
“Do you ever feel homesick for a place you can't remember?” my father would ask me, late at night, when the tide pressed high against the dunes. I would smile, shake my head, and turn…
For each its purpose, every plant is signedEmbedded by the Maker with intentsIn willing service to Creation, thenMaybe we shouldn’t tell them how to live Because if we humans are signed for plantsEmbedded by the…
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