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The Odd Command
My loved one sleeps and softly just respires,A strange and intricate consort of cells.Each does exactly what it most desires,In love with all its neighbors, like matched bells. We...
A Bower in the Arsacides
A hippie peddles jewelryBeneath a poinciana tree,A mother picks her daughter upBacklit before an endless sea. All of this life of business,The local news, the cheerful mess,Takes place within...
Missing Mass
My plane was late”I’ve missed the evening Mass; So now I take a walk and try to pray. The sky is vast, a dome of marbled glass Where shoals...
The Legend of Saint Piran
They tied Saint Piran to a great millstone And flung that good man in the Irish Sea. But the stone floated, and he stood alone Upon the Cornwall shore...