Thursday, March 31, 2016

Ironies

Ironies
draw the mind free of habitual
animal ease.  Sough of tides in the heart,
massive and moony, is not our sound

But hope and despair together
bring tears to face, are a human ground,
death mask and comic, such speech
as hero and commoner device, makes sense

contrive our face. To expunge

either, is to cast snares for the 
ghost a glancing heart makes
along a ground, and airy goes its way. (Fr. Daniel J. Berrigan)

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