August: A Poem Duology
August is a Yellow Flame "That August was like a yellow flame" - Anna Ahkmatova, 1917 / Anno Domini MCMXXI / III. The Voice of Memory This August is indeed like a yellow flame Death writhes…
Tag: Lawrence “Mack” Hall
King Charles Invited the Wrong People
In the British monarchy (1,500 years and still in business) the successor becomes monarch by the Grace of God, not by the gracelessness of a caucus or a TV network poll, immediately upon the death…
You Were in Bethlehem – Don’t You Remember?
When you were a little child you knelt before The Infant Jesus there in Bethlehem Among the animals you placed your toys: Barbie and Buzz, and Woody the Cowboy too Even the Wise Men…
Everyone Writes a Poem about the Winter Solstice
The moon is falling away from the full The axis of the earth will briefly pause Planets and stars align as the Maker wills And we wonder if we can sense our world Our…
Advent – A Gift of Becoming
“The old order changeth, yielding place to new”-“The Coming of Arthur” and “The Passing of Arthur” in Idylls of the King There is much to be said for Ordinary Time It's very ordinariness is kind…
No Straight Lines in Nature
That commonplace of art instruction is true: From the rainbow to the tomato worm And in the rhythms of our chambered hearts Creation curves itself around our lives A straight line is of the…
Someday a New Arthur
“Chasing Chaucer and Beowulf out of the Curriculum” -Spectator Someday a new Merlin among the ruins Will give a new Arthur a trove of hidden books: Chaucer and Milton, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Keats And…
A Footprint on the Road to Santiago
A footprint on the road to SantiagoIt has meaning - a footprint, and anotherAn indent from the ferrule of a stickToward a vision of a Field of StarsSin-weary and sunburnt, a pilgrim plodsThrough weeds and…
All the Little Midnight Lights
To awaken in the middle of the nightIs to realize that this midnight dreamIs a fairyland of points of lightArcing and soaring like a magic stream The curious visions before your flickering eyesBegin to focus…
Palm Sunday Well-Sanitized
There is social distancing in Jerusalem Mostly among Romans and Greeks and Jews Who don’t much like each other anyway - How is this day different from all other days? 1 This year there…