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Poetry

Spoiled

After the painting The Massacre of the Innocents by Léon Cogniet Once we cradled close in the corner of our room, folded like prayer-hands, while

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Poetry

Lazarus Box

Here, from my box of precious things: a handful of rose petals dry and wither-burnt; a smooth stick in the shape of a perfect “y;”

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Poetry

My Burden Light: Poem

—after François Mauriac If you wish to resist the cross of Christ Don’t you dare dream up a casual affair. Follow Rimbaud. Pulled hair, soul

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Poetry

A Conversion

Editor’s note: In his last months dying of cancer, Timothy Murphy, a gay man who preceeded his partner in converting to Catholicism, poured out poetry.

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Poetry

Winter’s Still Song

(after hearing Morten Lauridsen’s Magnum Mysterium at a friend’s Wedding) The hush falls like soft-feathered snow, as light takes its leave.   Clamoring thoughts, like tired children

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