Between Mirage and Miracle
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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In this volume, Shepherd selects from these, and from other unpublished works, to shape a series of poems that seek to portray and even illuminate, to some extent, the life of the spirit.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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Late Call

What do the geese cry
one to another, angling
across the early winter sky
this Advent morning? Surely
it is a call of courage, of
encouragement passing by, the
cheering hope, keen expectation
of neglectful fields, smooth waters
up ahead before the darkness settles in.
Today I waited for them knowing high
within the bones—far from my brain
...

Table of contents

  1. Between Mirage and Miracle
  2. Book List
  3. Permissions
  4. Preface
  5. Between Mirage and Miracle
  6. Nunc Dimittis
  7. Forest Snowfall—Before Sunrise
  8. Unseasonable
  9. Ordinary Time
  10. Definition
  11. On Backing Out
  12. Valentine’s Day
  13. Trisagion
  14. Ash Wednesday
  15. Looking for Lent
  16. Forecast
  17. CYCLE
  18. Septuagesima Sunday
  19. . . . And Heaven Too?
  20. Peepers
  21. Holy Week
  22. Temple Cleansing
  23. Holy Tuesday
  24. Renderings
  25. Rendition (Render unto Caesar . . .)
  26. Mid (Holy) Week
  27. Defining—Holy Thursday
  28. One Kiss
  29. Trade Secrets
  30. Status Report—Saturday
  31. Harrowing
  32. Holy Saturday at The Green Market
  33. First Sunday
  34. Hope Weed
  35. Debriefing
  36. Divine Dilemma?
  37. Two Porpoises Passed By
  38. Wind Sock Kites Ocean City
  39. Anointings
  40. Real Presence
  41. Lawn Care
  42. Un-dividing Wall
  43. Chesapeake Daybreak
  44. Catch of the Day—Chebeague Island, Maine
  45. Epiphanies Variegated
  46. Alternative Medicine
  47. Hummers
  48. Autumn’s Call
  49. Autumn
  50. Terms in Contradiction
  51. Church Picnic
  52. Fall Faith
  53. Digging Dahlias
  54. Daylight Saving
  55. Autumn’s Weather
  56. November Dusk—The Eve of Christ the King
  57. Thank Offering
  58. Thanksgiving Wish
  59. Cold Turkey Days
  60. Late Call
  61. Hanging The Greens
  62. Advent Saturday—With Catriona in New York
  63. Aftershave
  64. December Eighteen— Awaiting the First Snowstorm
  65. Revisiting Solstice
  66. Winter Solstice
  67. Pre-Nativity—December 23
  68. Some Assembly Required
  69. The Coming of the Light
  70. Don’t Stop Me . . .
  71. The Silent Seers
  72. The Midwife of Bethlehem
  73. Minimizing Magic
  74. Toltec Point—Winnipesaukee
  75. Seasonings
  76. Bomb Fragment
  77. Dreamhaven
  78. With His Stripes
  79. First Fear
  80. Falling Away
  81. The News So Far . . .
  82. Cadenza—A New Song to the Lord
  83. Stained Glass Windows
  84. Housewarming
  85. Recipe—For a Church Cookbook
  86. Clock Minder
  87. Calling
  88. Eroding
  89. Reasons
  90. Why I Still Go
  91. Significant
  92. Seeing Whole
  93. Secret
  94. Fountain—Brooklyn Botanical Garden
  95. On Hearing Bruckner’s Ninth Again
  96. The Beauty of Xiaohe
  97. Amended Credo
  98. A Visit to Saint Paul’s Chapel
  99. Mail From New York City
  100. Setting Up the Advent Wreath—November 2001
  101. Homeland Security—The Eve of Advent
  102. Post Epiphany—January 2002
  103. Worldly Wisdom?
  104. Lay of the Land