Saint Anthony at church    Was left in the lurch,    So he went to the ditches    And preached to the fishes.        They wriggled their tails,        In the sun glanced their scales….

I     Beneath the vine-clad eaves,    Whose shadows fall before    Thy lowly cottage door    Under the lilac�s tremulous leaves,    Within thy snowy claspe�d hand    The purple flowers it bore.    Last eve in…

 In these rapid, restless shadows,    Once I walked at eventide,    When a gentle, silent maiden,    Walked in beauty at my side    She alone there walked beside me    All in beauty,…

 �Tis said that when    The hands of men    Tamed this primeval wood,    And hoary trees with groans of woe,    Like warriors by an unknown foe,    Were in their strength subdued,    The…

When I was young the silkof my mindhard as a peony headunfurledand wind bloomed the parachute: The air-head tugged meup,tore my roots loose and drovehigh,…

A day without rain is likea day without sunshine

Motion’s the dead giveaway,eye catcher, the revealing risk:the caterpillar sulls on the hot macadam but then, risking, ripples to the bush:the cricket, startled, leaps thequickest…

One failure onTop of another

The saints are gathering at the realplaces, trying tough skin on sharpconscience,endurance in the hot spots-searching out to define, come upagainst, mouththe bitterest bit:you can…

When you consider the radiance, that it does not withholditself but pours its abundance without selection into everynook and cranny not overhung or hidden; when…