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In the Activities Room
No one will say it, but we knowtoday’s fresh-flamed hibiscus flowerreveals in one brief, glorious showour birth, our life, our final hour. Sacrament and synecdochelive in a pot near...
God of the Gold and Purple finches
Finches at all my feeders flash and bicker in ritual consternation and all weather, jangle at me with never-ending want, need me compliant but omnipotent. Within the nearby pine,...
As It Turns Out
Give me, I thought, a stand of tilted pines guarding white water hurtling into mist. Give me a steep-cut torrent over stones, trout-bright, clear and fast. Or better, I...
This Blue
The way the light of youfinds me through the hot,bright unnamable blue, that square of ancient glassin the high apse window,backlit at mid-day Mass: blue should not feel like...
