Thursday, March 31, 2016

Consolation

Listen
if now and then
you hear the dead
muttering like ashes

creaking like empty
rockers on porches

filling you in   filling you in

like winds in empty
branches  like stars
in wintry trees
so far
so good

you've mastered finally
one foreign tongue (Fr. Daniel J. Berrigan)

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