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two poems by diane vreuls HE CAME A BABY To take on flesh, hunger and thirst. To learn pain. Born without words the Word, where angels sang his cry rose in the midnight air. He had to learn to...
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HEALING Some procedures have no pain that we remember. Anesthetized, we slowly wake to the delirium of daylight, the gated bed, the tubes, telemetry, the insistent recall to identity, the life we...
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ADORATIONS Adoration of the Magi from the Life of the Virgin: Durer A noisy scene: Angel trio in the heavens warbling and strumming, two magi volubly disputing, Joseph itching to join in, and...
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ANNO ANIMAE IN TERR A 2011 So many years in time, my soul, so long since I met you at the door to this large plain room where all the children looked up for a moment as we entered, then turned...
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Valley “Your opponent the devil is prowling...” 1 Peter Near the stone ledge where I sleep the lion paces. All night he walks back and forth above me, then leaps to the ledge, settles in...
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Thirst The wine is sour which we drink without a blessing and dark, staining the cloth that covers the table which is not Christ. You, new sweet drink, You give us: first, yourself; and after,...
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Roll Call Fourth Grade Philip Jesperson didn't recognize his name. Philip Bade wouldn't take his seat. Betsy answered only to Elsabeth Ann. Susan wept in the cloakroom. "Here" was the only word...
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Vree, Dale
Two Poems
(September 2015)
