Cynthia Erlandson

“Hast thy dark descending and most art merciful then.”Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Wreck of the Deutschland You who are both Beginning and Ending          Though You have neither;Maker both of light and darkness, blending          Judgment and . . . . Continue Reading »

“What we call the beginning is often the endAnd to make an end is to make a beginning.The end is where we start from.”              —T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets (“Little Gidding”) The end is where we start from. This last choreOf Autumn must be . . . . Continue Reading »

“Between the essence and the descentFalls the shadow.”—T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men“. . . All things proceed to a joyful consummation.”—T. S. Eliot, Murder in the CathedralThe candles lit, the altar boysAssume their seats. The smoke ascends.The incense, in procession, triesTo lift our . . . . Continue Reading »