The Centimeter-Worm
On a summer day While harvesting the first sunflower seedsI felt the shyest tickle on my armAs if the smallest creature in the worldWanted me to pay attention to it And it was so –…
Category: Original Poetry
Blood and Sacrifice
A thousand stories told, both true and make-believe, Ten thousand to redeem, the heroes’ lives to give, A plethora unknown, to pay a ransom-price, As images of One, in blood and sacrifice. A captain’s crashing…
The Flower Room
(A unique Ode to Saint Anthony Parish, Fitchburg, MA) This dusty flower room you now seeSpeak so well of history.The treasures I found collected over the yearsLeft for rust or dust as if no one…
Water and Word
Cool and clear, I flow into the clay jar and wait to be poured out; To purify and cleanse both body and soul. Many times, have I been spent, To collect impurity and soak it…
The Good, the True, the Beautiful, and the Assistant Principal
(Well, three out of four, eh?)For David Pitts, who Honors his students. Of math the assistant principal spoke:The elegance of a geometric proofWhen it brightens the mind, the eye, the skyCompleting a song of the…
Sunday-Go-To-Meetin’ Mask
Our faces adorned in baptismal whiteWe carefully approach the Altar of GodTouching each pew because the mask-y blightBefogs one’s spectacles - awkward and odd Because his eyeglasses are but a smearEach obstacle thus is undetectableThe…
Evening – Palm Sunday
The waxing moon knows nothing of Holy Week,and stars care nothing for sacred liturgies.Nor do the fireflies flitting among the trees,and ‘round the darkening lawn as evening falls. The beagle dozing in her rabbit-dreams,a neighbouring…
The Platonic Tree
(If Plato had considered a tree instead of a cave)Cf. Republic, Book VII For a little child a tree is foreverIt is as it was, and will always beIn a dreamy stasis beyond all timeTrue…