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Polish Splendor Near the Grand Hôtel des Bains

Polish Splendor Near the Grand Hôtel des Bains We walk across the Lido towards the beach To see the Adriatic, but they’ve blocked The view.  It happens it is hard to reach Our goal.  In several ways the sea is locked Away from us—with buildings, wall and fence. Desire...

Myrrh When God Became Small

Myrrh When God Became Small Two times the God of Heaven and earth became As small as God can be.  The first time he Was laid in swaddling clothes.  They made him tame As any ox or sheep.  Eternity Looked down upon a little mite on straw, The might of heaven in a...

Smite the Rock

Smite the Rock My thoughts and words and realms are in a sealed Compartment, memory, that you must not Trespass until a signal makes me yield. What watchword? Yes, that moment which is fraught With love for both of us, a moment you Recall to me in such a way that...

Daughters of Mnemosyne

 Daughters of Mnemosyne Now what is knowledge but a shadow of Wisdom?  And what is poetry but tints Of life and death?  Music is only love, Perfected love, spelled out in measured hints, Reverberations set in echoes culled From hummed geometries, from pieces heard In...