
Between Mirage and Miracle
Selected Poems for Seasons, Festivals, and the Occasional Revelation
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Between Mirage and Miracle
Selected Poems for Seasons, Festivals, and the Occasional Revelation
About this book
In this volume, Shepherd selects from these, and from other unpublished works, to shape a series of poems that seek to portray and even illuminate, to some extent, the life of the spirit. They begin by tracing the progress of a typical year--January through December--but also by noting, and celebrating at times, the high points of The Christian Year: Lent-Easter, Pentecost, Thanksgiving, Advent-Christmas, and Epiphany. Other, more generally themed, less calendar-related poems follow, including poems that reflect on the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center--an attack in which several of the author's parishioners and friends were killed.This is a book to be dipped into, rather than read right through. It should provide fertile soil for the practice of daily prayer and meditation.
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Table of contents
- Between Mirage and Miracle
- Book List
- Permissions
- Preface
- Between Mirage and Miracle
- Nunc Dimittis
- Forest SnowfallâBefore Sunrise
- Unseasonable
- Ordinary Time
- Definition
- On Backing Out
- Valentineâs Day
- Trisagion
- Ash Wednesday
- Looking for Lent
- Forecast
- CYCLE
- Septuagesima Sunday
- . . . And Heaven Too?
- Peepers
- Holy Week
- Temple Cleansing
- Holy Tuesday
- Renderings
- Rendition (Render unto Caesar . . .)
- Mid (Holy) Week
- DefiningâHoly Thursday
- One Kiss
- Trade Secrets
- Status ReportâSaturday
- Harrowing
- Holy Saturday at The Green Market
- First Sunday
- Hope Weed
- Debriefing
- Divine Dilemma?
- Two Porpoises Passed By
- Wind Sock Kites Ocean City
- Anointings
- Real Presence
- Lawn Care
- Un-dividing Wall
- Chesapeake Daybreak
- Catch of the DayâChebeague Island, Maine
- Epiphanies Variegated
- Alternative Medicine
- Hummers
- Autumnâs Call
- Autumn
- Terms in Contradiction
- Church Picnic
- Fall Faith
- Digging Dahlias
- Daylight Saving
- Autumnâs Weather
- November DuskâThe Eve of Christ the King
- Thank Offering
- Thanksgiving Wish
- Cold Turkey Days
- Late Call
- Hanging The Greens
- Advent SaturdayâWith Catriona in New York
- Aftershave
- December Eighteenâ Awaiting the First Snowstorm
- Revisiting Solstice
- Winter Solstice
- Pre-NativityâDecember 23
- Some Assembly Required
- The Coming of the Light
- Donât Stop Me . . .
- The Silent Seers
- The Midwife of Bethlehem
- Minimizing Magic
- Toltec PointâWinnipesaukee
- Seasonings
- Bomb Fragment
- Dreamhaven
- With His Stripes
- First Fear
- Falling Away
- The News So Far . . .
- CadenzaâA New Song to the Lord
- Stained Glass Windows
- Housewarming
- RecipeâFor a Church Cookbook
- Clock Minder
- Calling
- Eroding
- Reasons
- Why I Still Go
- Significant
- Seeing Whole
- Secret
- FountainâBrooklyn Botanical Garden
- On Hearing Brucknerâs Ninth Again
- The Beauty of Xiaohe
- Amended Credo
- A Visit to Saint Paulâs Chapel
- Mail From New York City
- Setting Up the Advent WreathâNovember 2001
- Homeland SecurityâThe Eve of Advent
- Post EpiphanyâJanuary 2002
- Worldly Wisdom?
- Lay of the Land