VERSE:
Altany, Alan
ident to introduce American troops to hostilities or bruised, had better be pulled from the White House situations wherein hostilities are imminent. Moreover, fireplace before it was too...
...Moreover, fireplace before it was too late...
...There were some dis- alert and attractive Institution, then Americans would sents...
...The floor At night I finger stars tastes of salty years as prayer-worn beads shadows close the cracks raising my cold arms in supplication, my nose is crushed to dust, kneeling upon an eye-white altar from the clerestory with earthly relics of stone, come echoes of my struggled breath the darkness carries an incense from the apse an angel dream the fragrance of dying winds...
...the last office of the day...
...silently passing the old barn...
...When that comes to pass, there will be little to separate life in the cloister from the life of the world...
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...Teilhard de Chardin, The Divine Milieu I am as a monk throwing down old traps of flesh walking monastery parapets and trembling praises in the bitter wind, made of frozen March cornfields there's the goliard and the idiot about me walking in solitude the hermit madman of the desert, around the middle court while the rest of the Order sleeps cloistered with unsprung budded trees, I'm prostrate before the Holy Cross my footsteps are empty clouds warm blood dropping onto my heart...
...But seventy-two Senators believed queville: "A danger to democracy is not the tyrant, but that Congressional chestnuts, however charred and the good shepherd...
...SISYPHUS ALAN ALTANY AS A MONK "May the time come when men, having been awakened to a sense of the close bond linking all the movement of this world in the single, all-embracing work of the Incarnation, shall be unable to give themselves to any one of their tasks without illuminating it with the clear vision that their work-however elementary it may be-is received and put to good use by a Centre of the universe...
...firewood under the other I'm part Cassandra, Quasimodo and monk praying with hammer and a steel wedge astride the basilica bell tower inside the monastery walls...
...Birds are ringing for Matins I am as a monk the baldachin's become a suspended web turning light into rainbow roads, alone in my blue walls room it's time to rise, gather in my robe...
...lateral actions, which previously at least it could be A pointed warning for the Congress is one by de Tocargued were illegal...
...Senator Eagleton of Missouri argued vigorously have the advantage of having two choices presented that the measure, in effect, gave legal sanction to uni- them for leadership-the President and the Congress...
...as blackbirds call me to Terce the time of morning chanting, I'm as a monk this I do at an old desk lost from his duties by typing out melismatic poems squinting beneath the high sun holding the Scriptures under one arm (humble and transient groping chants...
...such troops so introduced could not remain unless the The argument now being heard even within the ConPresidential action was approved by the Congress within gress itself is that if it can make itself into an effective, 60 days after the President acted...
...with hands for wings Above my cowled spirit and a nimbus of thorns, an unbusheled candle burns through the pale face sleep suddenly comes of a vigil moon, it is Nocturne but can collapse be called sleep...
...ident to introduce American troops to hostilities or bruised, had better be pulled from the White House situations wherein hostilities are imminent...
Vol. 100 • March 1974 • No. 3
