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Gossip and Other Poems
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Catholic
ANEMONE
Beauty gives
hegemony...
to
the pink bush of anemone
.. a flock of settled
butterflies..
...with nary an enemy
CRIMSON CROSS TO PINK JOY
The sun through the crimson cross
of stained glass
.. made pink patterns on
the tiles
as the crimson crucifixion
of Christ became
the joy of His children.
CARMELITE
In dusk's carmel light
In the convent Carmelite
.. golddusted are
the garden's gardenias
and bee-kissed
.. the camellias.
As the nuns listened
to the birds' vowbreaking
song.. and the
bees' vowbreaking buzz
some left..
and others stayed
CATHEDRAL BIRDS
Birds are fed at the Cleveland
Cathedral...
unlike the skyscraper diagonal,
it has niches.. and caves..
nooks and naves
where
dew is caught
and dwellings made..
When they are fed by passersby..
the little sparrows sometimes
defer to the pigeons of greater size..
and sometimes quickly get their share.
CLARA'S LINKS
When she hears
of cruelty to human
poor or suffering
or lonely zoo lynx
She's not drawn to
work through
internet links..
nor to commune
with the powerful
on golfcourse links..
Anonymously and quietly
she acts
while she fingers
rosary links
GOSSIP
As if one were throwing
human waste into
the church sanctuary,
gossipers
defile the air waves
of earth with their
thoughts..
which can not be retracted
.. save God do miracles
As they pick up
their dirt balls
they muddy their
own fingers.
to Clara T whose rosary links turned gold in the St Jude Shrine in Barberton. Several saw the miracle.
