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FRIENDSHIP SECONDED Timothy Murphy i. Down by the Buffalo a willow bends in an abandoned yard where summers we trained hard. Long we were buddies, never such fast friends as we became after my...

Ode: Yes, Lord, But Not Yet (August 2018)

ODE: YES, LORD, BUT NOT YET Timothy Murphy Strophe: Letter to Known Address I'd hoped the death date on my granite stone might fall twenty years hence. Age eighty-seven has a nice ring, two...

Ode to Our Lady (March 2018)

POETRY ODE TO OUR LADY for Msgr. Robert Laliberte Mary Queen An old priest said, "Entrust your prayers to Mary." To place my faith in one I had ignored was truly gay boy scary. Marion Worship I...

Return to Rosebud (March 2018)

POETRY RETURN TO ROSEBUD Ring Thunder Road Four eagles carve the carcass of a cow. Hunting is such hard work that scavenging is a sweet option when you're ravaging this short grass prairie,...

Wintry Gratitude, An Ode (February 2018)

POETRY WINTRY GRATITUDE, AN ODE Seven Good Fridays Later First Triduum, the Long Gospel of John, you said you’d never heard me read that well, fourteen minutes, the church under John’s spell, the...

Letter to Belmont (November 2017)

LETTER TO BELMONT i.m. Richard Wilbur Master, I reread Monsour’s “Burrowing Bees” and learned today you’re in a nursing home far from the Berkshire woods you used to roam. I hope you have a view...

From Multum in Parvo (March 2017)

From Multum in Parvo “For the least of these” Goods in their stolen shopping carts piled high, the homeless labor down this frozen street, and there but for the grace of God go I. Replete after...

Another Advent (December 2016)

another advent St. Patrick, never leave me in the lurch, swimming in Irish whiskey. Toward my perch Advent is drawing on, time for more church, more Gospel readings, lessons from St. Paul, time to...

Patrick O'Shea (September 2013)

PATRICK O'SHEA My soul waits for the Lord as do we on watch until morning, more than we who watch for the morning. —Psalm 130 I. We charter a large motor yacht to strew Alan’s ashes, and...

Sacraments in the Field (July 2013)

SACRAMENTS IN THE FIELD A layman can baptize when in extremis or give the last rites. Here’s how I perform them. I can’t confess you, consecrate a wafer, but I can say hello, goodbye in...

Nathan Pitchford (March 2013)

Nathan Pitchford I. Easter Monday Mon chef majeur? He is the Holy Ghost, and Nathan asks, “Have you been born again?” Perhaps not. I have faith in Christ. Amen I say to you He comes when I am...

Paha Sapa Redux (February 2013)

PAHA SAPA REDUX I dreamed of Stonehenge and its megaliths rising from mists and myths, then dreamed of Easter Island and the stone giants propped on plinths, then dreamed of minotaurs and...

Ecumenical (September 2012)

ECUMENICAL “On the great book that’s titled Pheasant Hunting this is the cover photo,” Steven says. Heavy cover varies from brown to baize silvered with frost, with not an arctic bunting spinning...

The Septuagint (September 2011)

The Septuagint for Seree Cohen Zohar The seventy-two elders sequestered by Ptolemy Philadelphus in chambers, a cell for every scholar, were told by the King of Egypt: "Translate the books of...

The Thursday Collection (December 2010)

The Thursday Collection Thanksgiving was frozen and gray. Three thousand dollars and change were donated at our Masses, and our pastor was moved to arrange a gift for Dorothy Day, a thousand...

Murphy, W. C. Jr.

Murphy, Walter F.

Murphy, William C.

Murphy, William C. Jr.

Murray, Catherine

Murray, J. Courtney

Murray, James E.

Murray, Joseph G.

Murray, Les

MURRAY, MARGARET H.

Murray, Michael

Murray, Michele