Verse:
Joseph, Peter Green, LeRoy Smith, Jr, Charles Haddox, Lawrence
Charles Haddox Nativity of Mary Rose bom amid our Human Winter like a breath That turned to a lighter Color the hard Packed mar! in Our hearts Who Through quiet Brought forth...
...Lawrence Joseph Abba Scarred fingers, shoulder muscles sore from hacking cleaver down spine to get at what's inside...
...in Our hearts Who Through quiet Brought forth our Daysprmg/greensprig Shine Glassy winter to softness Peter Green Christ In Our Perplexity the light's been gouged from every sky of the way pitching the days in our eyes and ears like wet earth through a screen and the dog we're given for guide, old Ghost, blind and deaf and hacked at the knees cowers in Us whimpering piteously...
...LeRoy Smith, Jr...
...Adam Rational In a dark thicket Of the ultimate night, We face ourselves and see nothing, Having imagined Both reality and truth And perhaps even God, Who imagined us...
...Peter Green A Quiet Day Reading The sun bumps gently down behind a small bare tree closing round trunk and branch like fingers round a wrist...
...The tree sinks into the sun, I take this coin, this dole, like the head of Thomas More, like Peter's run for the tomb, in love and loss and longing for the blazing face of the whole.longing for the blazing face of the whole...
...But this, the ultimate night, We did not imagine And may therefore hope...
...Charles Haddox Nativity of Mary Rose bom amid our Human Winter like a breath That turned to a lighter Color the hard - Packed mar...
...Death don't ever come easy," my Abba says, prying dried Wood and sawdust from under fingernails with the blade of a boning knife...
Vol. 110 • January 1983 • No. 1
