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...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PHILIP LEGLER QUICKSILVER TRING Small-boned quicksilver thing you are rising full-length naked in your looking glass Are you offering . me strange breasts swaying or floating somewhere on pink toe shoes turning those thighs to the world Have I seen passing your reflection that deep secret room you live in :done Mirror girl my shiny daughter over dreamy shoulders have you caught me today watching you drift away Commonweal: 181...

...Also central to the proceedings were "how to" workshops on alternative life styles, including special urban ministries by women religious (Sisters of Mercy, Providence, R.I., and Sisters of Notre Dame, in Connecticut and Maryland) and a dedication to arts and crafts, eloquently described by Ade Bethune, Catholic Worker painter and calligrapher...

...the picketline--"a prayer in action," as Dolores Huerta called it--provided a realistic link to the nonviolent resistance referred to throughout the day...

...Tom Cornell, of the CPF, and John Bach, of Jonah House, Baltimore----~th veterans of Danbury, Conn., Federal Prison, where they were sentenced for draft resistance...

...As in the past, the war in Indochina occupied a central place in the proceedings...

...Obedience to these priorities, the ones that Christ responded to during His own life, rather than obedience to bishops or the established order, he said, must be the work of the Catholic peace movement in the years ahead...

...Other speakers and resource people conducting seminars on war tax resistance and on starting and developing communities of resistance, peace and justice, included activists from nonviolent campaigns against war over the past ten years: Jim Forest, member of the Milwaukee 14 and now editor of Fellowship magazine...

...At lunch time, fifty conference attendants put their newly acquired knowledge about the United Farm Workers' struggle to work by picketing a local A & P, a holdout on the current boycott against non-union lettuce...

...The proper work of the conference was, Bishop Gumbleton said, "to challenge you and myself to act on the conviction that peace is possible, that peace is a duty...

...A tiger cage, similar to the ones paid for and built by American tax dollars and now used to hold political prisoners in South Vietnam, greeted registrants as they arrived...

...MICHAEL TRUE (Michael True, a previous contributor, is a member o] the English Department, Assumption College, Worcester, Mass...

...And in a special workshop on political prisoners, Father Robert Manning, S.J., chaplain at Holy Cross College, emphasized the continued involvement of the United States government in South Vietnam since the cease-fire, which he observed in his visit to Indochina during Holy Week, 1973...

...That sentiment was repeated frequently, from the morning scripture reading to the homily by Dolores Huerta in the afternoon liturgy...

...In the face of the many issues related directly to peace --the end of war, the elimination of the draft---Bishop Gumbleton challenged the Catholic Peace Fellowship not to narrow its focus too greatly, not to forget such overriding problems as the development of peoples, the distribution of food, the terrible imbalance in the world's goods, where even in the United States, "one-fifth of the people are kept poor and deprived...

...Following Bishop Gumbleton's opening remarks, six workshop leaders addressed themselves to specific issues, reflecting the work that many of the attendants were already involved in...

...It was a somber note, in the midst of celebration, combining a sense of a common purpose with the realization of the hard work ahead...