Lentils and barley,water and salt,split peas and pasta—pure to a fault—stir until clouded,season to taste,boil and then simmer,nothing to waste.Greens can be added.Time’s on a loop.Towers have toppledinto the soup.Cauldron of comfortserved with warm hands,this is a recipecrisis demands. . . . . Continue Reading »
Give to Caesar what is his,namely, everything there is.I see a lot of eyebrows raised.Let’s check the books. You’ll be amazed.An x. An o. A hug and kiss.Render unto Caesar this.Render unto Caesar that.His the dog, his the cat.Render up your reading time.Render, too, your reverie.Render up the . . . . Continue Reading »
The brethren walk about in hatsAnd up they go and down they go.The brethren’s hats are black as bats,Their faces are as white as snow,And up they go and down they go.Amen amen they say and thenThey turn their faces to the wall.As if they were not there at allThey turn their faces to the wall.They . . . . Continue Reading »
This second circle—coming back againto the coming back—the sweeping dial of days; where all time’s whats and whys and whensclick clockwise on your face, or mine. Beginagain the memory of counting while this second circle, coming back again,continues clicking on its route to chimedelights and . . . . Continue Reading »
We carry our small griefs like stones in pockets.We rub them smooth with worry, thumb their coldsolidity, and palm their petty weight.At work, in restaurants, with husbands or with wives,we warm them in our hands, their prattle lowand light against our thighs. Deep down, we knowthere’s so much . . . . Continue Reading »
Come our one great bushfirepigs, sty-released, declined to quittheir pavements of gravel and shit.Other beasts ran headlong, whipping off with genitals pinched high.Human mothers taught their infants creek-dipping.Fathers galloped, gale-blown blaze strippinggrass at their heels and on by too swift . . . . Continue Reading »
This faith that enables us to look past darkness to light, even if now only dimly, is the faith in which John Montague was formed. Continue Reading »
New York, the home of those who wander far
From home, fleeing charming ghosts, or else in
Search of something resembling a star. Continue Reading »
The world unfurls its flag of toleration,issues its edicts of equality,and he who bears the sign of our salvationis banished as a public enemy.As Athanasius, when the world awoketo find itself ensconced in heresy,so we whose world must wear a harsher yokeare called to Athanasian constancy.We, too, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary is a distinct layer in the rock strata laid down about 65 million years ago. Its creation coincides with the mass extinction of the dinosaurs and it contains high levels of iridium, an element found in asteroids.On top of the food chain, they had few . . . . Continue Reading »
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