For Sidney Bechet (Philip Larkin Poem)
That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes Like New Orleans reflected on the water, And in all ears appropriate ...
That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes Like New Orleans reflected on the water, And in all ears appropriate ...
My mother, who hates thunder storms, Holds up each summer day and shakes It out suspiciously, lest swarms Of grape-dark ...
(For Aline) Monsignore, Right Reverend Bishop Valentinus, Sometime of Interamna, which is called Ferni, Now of the delightful Court of ...
Somehow appropriate the imagery of destruction the counterpoint of the blossoms the sacred cherry trees Something precious in the transience ...
Something of irony God making a statement that lowly shepherds who be the first to see Jesus Not the upper ...
Our cry in the night when we don't know what to do when we are turned around when we feel ...
In getting ready for the day the worship, the sermon the message on this gray, rainy day appropriate somehow knowing ...
Wesley's description, his conversion an appropriate thought on Pentecost morn' Strangely warmed, so they must have been flames of fire, ...
The pastor's words on receiving the bread on sharing the wine broken for me, shed for me Amen is not ...
We stand, we all stand, naked before God, exposed as surely as they were in the Garden, after the fall ...
The lepers, the exiles, needed to make appropriate praise to the Lord, for their saving even in their exile, their ...
Like gloved hands at the summer cotillion so were the petals of the sun touching her face, oh so delicately, ...
I smiled a the funny turn of phrase, the appropriate admonition, "we need to avoid purple", the mixing of the ...
As He is so want to do, the lectionary was blended sharing a deeper message, in the mixing of the ...
A grand presentation the three of us early one Sunday morning just before Easter A grand march with appropriate solemnity ...
A fine line in the sand of import to find balance of equities costs yes, expenses no parsing subtleties of ...
Out of the mud two strangers came And caught me splitting wood in the yard, And one of them put ...
The murmuring of Bees, has ceased But murmuring of some Posterior, prophetic, Has simultaneous come. The lower metres of the ...
I tried cooking in my new Quicksilver jacket, just an affectation I assure you - no, not the coat or ...
What's in a song John (or is it 'Knuckles'), what's in a song about an unemployed, suicidal bum, caught in ...
"MY First - but don't suppose," he said, "I'm setting you a riddle - Is - if your Victim be ...
I chanced upon a new book yesterday; I opened it, and, where my finger lay 'Twixt page and uncut page, ...
SHORTLY AFTER THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING IN EUROPE. Let us begin and carry up this corpse, Singing together. Leave we ...
Someone embraces me Someone looks at me with the eyes of a wolf Someone takes off his hat So I ...
Ye sons of Germany, your noble Emperor William now is dead. Who oft great armies to battle hath led; He ...
What I love about this little leaning mark is how it divides without divisiveness. The left or bottom side prying ...
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...
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