call it brave, call it saintly, call it love
Poetry
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Little Skate
I could never make a meal of skate again
remembering you, brave wingless thing.
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Joy of My Youth
To God, who gives joy to my youth. Say it! Say it now…
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The Prayer of Unseeking Despair
just ordinary
sunlight
shimmering through a drizzling, autumn rain
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Behold the Handmaid
if you go to Mass, you hear the near-perfect opening
line in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God
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Why you should read Richard Wilbur’s ‘Love Calls Us to the Things of This World’
A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it as often as I can for my introductory poetry students.
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Washing windows at the Catholic Worker
Because this house is a dandelion gone to seed. Fragile and full of possibility.
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Bible Study
Her laptop says Coffee and Jesus,
so I fish the Bible from my backpack,
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Gibbous Moon
a goblet neither full nor empty,
off balance there, like Humpty Dumpty