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Hearts have no template: they vary as much as snowflakes. Like snowflakes, some hearts are cold, but others are warm as babies' hands. Some are gray with melancholy; some bright with good cheer. This collection contains poems that reflect moments of the heart's delight and struggle. Some of the poems are indirect, merely suggesting the presence of the heart. Some are happily frivolous, as hearts can be; others are drawn from deep wells. Yet others squeeze into the group, altogether heartless, having slipped in between pulsations.
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Eight Poems at the End of Claretta’s Life
Spring, 2021
I
Memory
When blossoms dry,
how soon is spent
the savor of
the lilac’s scent.
So memory
dissolves and dies,
like rose perfume
or lovers’ sighs.
II
Plea
to the Holy Spirit
Day
after day
dark
burdens weigh,
day
after day
fear
wants to prey,
day
after day
fiends
bleat and bray.
Shine,
shine today
on
this dark way.
III
Malediction
He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison to them that are bound.
Luke 4:18
Go, horrid devils that twist
each smiling memory,
every happy picture,
to ugliness and fear.
Go, vile demons that bind my mind,
that steal the freedom of my peace,
that seek to chain my spirit
in your choking and unholy hell.
Go, hideous tormentors,
go with your own searing fears
and let them scorch your fiendish minds.
Go, live in gasping terror
of the hideous burning bondage that awaits
every shrieking moment of your accursed eternity.
IV
Her Quiet Room
How quiet that room—strangely still.
Only an occasional voice—muffled, indistinct—
or a strange, half-distant sound
filters through the odd derangement there.
Shades darken the windows
so that the disorder of the place
makes odd configurations in the gloom.
One last shade ...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction
- Rambles through the Heart
- The Greatest of These
- Friends
- Fresh from the Wrapper
- Information
- Lost
- Escaping Bingo
- Prejudice
- Irresistible Frigidity
- Balance
- Do You Wonder?
- Search for Symmetry
- Nocturne
- Eight Poems at the End of Claretta’s Life
- August Joy
- Privacy
- Crab Trees
- Advice
- Ach! Ach! Poor Mr. Bach
- Three Valentines
- Today’s Leadership
- Air
- The Truth and Nothing but the Truth
- Tomato
- Daydreams
- Confession
- Lineage of Learning
- Prayer for Today
- Design
- November
- Wings
- Squabble
- Doxology
- Lonesome
- Riddle Pie
- Evening Advice
- Self-Portrait
- Ecclesiastical Polity
- Spizzerinctum
- Timepiece
- Faith
- Resurrection