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    • Poet - Anne McCrary Sullivan
    • Joan Baranow - Poetry >
      • New Mother Again
      • SPRING BIRTHS
      • Things He Said
      • Grandma
    • Liana-Aliki >
      • Time Was Destilled
      • I'll move the trees
      • I hold your hands in mine
      • Our love recalls
    • Tayve Neese - Poetry >
      • Harvest
      • Radioactive Boars
      • Athena's Owl
    • Jane Creighton >
      • Cy Twombly in the Thicket of Light
      • Standing in Gallery 8
      • The Trees on Prairie Road
    • Elaine Fletcher Chapman >
      • ​IN THE GREENING OF THE RESERVOIR
      • LATELY, THE RESERVOIR, MY OCEAN
      • URGENCY
      • AFTER JANE KENYON'S
      • LEAVING PATACARA
      • ANTICIPATION OF BLOSSOMS
      • HE MARKED MY BODY
    • Melissa Studdard – Like a Bird >
      • When the Birdsong Rings Human
    • Cynthia Atkins >
      • When The Internet Is The Loneliest Place On The Planet
      • Anorexia Nervosa
      • God Is A Library
    • LISA RHOADES >
      • IN THE BRIGHT WORLD
      • THE LONG GRASS
      • WORDS AT HAND
    • Wendy Barker >
      • ON THE CHINESE SCROLL
      • WHAT SURFACES
      • BELOW THE SALT
      • NOW I LEARN
    • REBECCA PELKY >
      • RITA DEL GARDI & THE NIXON PIGEON VANISH
      • For Those Who Need the True Story
      • When the Sun Dances into the Sky
      • Spell for Northern Girls: To Make Sea Glass
    • Andrea Messineo >
      • THE BEGINNING OF LABOR
      • PILGRIMAGE
      • ALL-NIGHT DINER
    • Anne Babson >
      • AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD
      • BEHOLD, A VIRGIN SHALL CONCEIVE
      • THUS SAITH THE LORD (TRANSPOSED FOR SOPRANO)
      • THE RICH YOUNG RULER
    • Elizabeth Cohen - Poetry >
      • Goulash
      • The Cabbage
      • Aftermath
      • THE BOOK OF SPARROW
      • BIRDLESS
      • BIRD ELIXIR
      • BIRD LIGHT ART
    • Stephanie Kartalopoulos – Poet >
      • SLOW FAIL – Stephanie Kartalopoulos
      • EL FORTUNA – Stephanie Kartalopoulos
      • INHERITANCE – Stephanie Kartalopoulos
    • Leslie Contreras Schwartz - Poetry >
      • Interview - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • CENOTE - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • PAPER DOLL CHAIN - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • THE COMAL AND MY HANDS - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • THE SWIM TO ANTARCTICA - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • LABOR PANTOUM - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • POSTPARTUM - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
    • Melissa Studdard - I Ate the Cosmos >
      • A PRAYER
      • Melissa Studdard - Bio
      • WE ARE THE UNIVERSE
      • Motion Poems Video - I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast
      • A Painting & Poet Connect
    • Dylan Krieger – Poet >
      • ghost porn
      • borderline
      • msg heard round the world
      • caption this conspiracy
    • Anne Tammel >
      • Anne Tammel ~ Poem ~ Amelia Earhart Drinks the Red Sea
      • Anne Tammel ~ Isa & Amelia
      • Anne Tammel ~ Amelia at the Red Sea
      • Anne Tammel ~ Poem ~ Endless: A Literate Passion
    • Britt Posmer - Poetry >
      • Britt Posmer - Poems from The Angel and the Heretic
    • David Brendan Hopes >
      • CHRISTMAS MORNING – HOPES
      • THE ANNUNCIATION – HOPES
      • ON THE ADORATION – HOPES
      • PENIEL – HOPES
    • Daniel Thomas – Poet >
      • WITHOUT THE MOCKINGBIRD – Daniel Thomas
      • HOME PREGNANCY TEST – Daniel Thomas
      • THE OLD BRIDGE – Daniel Thomas
    • Sean M. Conrey – Poet >
      • Apple – The Book of Trees
      • Ash – The Book of Trees
      • Hawthorn – The Book of Trees
    • Skip Renker >
      • SILENT REACH
      • A MOMENTARY OBEDIENCE
      • IN THE FEEL
    • Terry Lucas - Poetry >
      • PSALM '66 – SUMMER '63
      • SURRENDER
      • DHARMA RAIN
    • Jeffrey Davis - Poet >
      • 3 LAGOONS - Jeffrey Davis
      • COAT THIEF - Jeffrey Davis
      • DARKNESS - Jeffrey Davis
  • Saint Julian Press Poets II
    • Fred LaMotte >
      • Strangers & Pilgrims
      • Mustard Seed
      • Carnival
      • I KNOW MY DOG IS DREAMING
      • BUDDHISM 101
      • OPUS
      • GENTLE
      • The Heart Is A Field
      • A Little More Attention to the Breath
      • Ode to Blueberries
      • Morning Meditation
      • DON’T BE SATISFIED TOO SOON
      • Silence
      • Wanderers Welcome
      • ANAHATTA
      • What Both Names Mean
    • Kevin McGrath - Poetry >
      • FAME FIRST POEM
      • FAME SECOND POEM
      • FAME THIRD POEM
      • FAME FOURTH POEM
      • SONG–NINA
      • SONG–NORA
      • SONG–STELLA
      • SONG–TATIANA
      • EROS–ONE
      • EROS-TWO
      • EROS-TWO 34TH & 35TH
      • Rothko Murals Essay
      • THE MARINER SPEAKS
      • WINDWARD ~ ONE
      • WINDWARD ~ NINETEEN
      • WINDWARD ~ TWENTY SIX
      • WINDWARD ~ COVER ART
    • Ron Starbuck - Poetry >
      • Vesper
      • Natoma
      • St. John
      • US Center Chapel
      • Kýrie Eléison
      • Christmas Crèche
      • There Is Something About Being An Episcopalian
      • Rumi
      • Śūnyatā - Emptiness is Form; Form is Emptiness
      • VOICES
      • Storm Shadow
      • Trane Ascending
      • Advent
      • A Mockingbird's Song
      • There Are Times
      • Sandburg & Monroe (The Visit 1961)
      • Whenever You Watch Me
      • The Monarch
      • Park Avenue
      • Language of Poetry
      • Literature of Faith
    • Thomas Simmons >
      • Aliki Barnstone’s Art
      • NOW – SPLITTING APART
      • WHAT WAS THERE SILENT REVEL
      • IF BORGES’ LOVER
      • THE BODY OF HOPE
      • THE BODY AT REST
      • SADNESS
      • Benediction
      • These
      • Marriage
      • Unbetrothed
      • How It Was
      • Bethlehem
      • Star Light, Star Bright
    • Donna McKenzie - In a Tumbleweed Storm
    • David-Glen Smith >
      • David-Glen Smith ~ Saint Brendan and the Whale
      • David-Glen Smith ~ v.
      • David-Glen Smith ~ xii.
      • David-Glen Smith ~ Metamorphosis
      • Cover Art for Variations ~ Tread by Keith Perelli
  • Saint Julian Press Podcasts
  • Interconnections
  • Press Releases I
    • Press Release - Romance >
      • Romance Poem One
      • Romance Poem Two
      • Romance Poem Three
      • Romance Poem Four
      • Romance Poem Five
      • Romance Poem Six
    • Press Release Fox Dreams >
      • Poem One Fox Dreams
      • Poem Two Fox Dreams
      • Poem Three Fox Dreams
      • Poem Three Fox Dreams
    • Press Release - Rivers >
      • Rivers Poem One
      • Rivers Poem Two
      • Rivers Poem Three
      • Rivers Poem Four
    • Press Release - The Grief Committee Minutes >
      • Grief Poem One
      • Grief Poem Two
      • Grief Poem Three
      • Grief Poem Four
    • Press Release - Slow Walk Home >
      • Poems—I—Slow Walk Home
      • Poems—II—Slow Walk Home
      • Poems—III—Slow Walk Home
      • Poems—IV—Slow Walk Home
    • Press Release - The Tavern of Awakening >
      • Press Release - Die Taverne des Erwachens
      • German & English Poems
    • Press Release - Strangers & Pilgrims >
      • Strangers & Pilgrims Poem One
      • Strangers & Pilgrims Poem Two
      • Strangers & Pilgrims Poem Three
      • Strangers & Pilgrims Poem Four
    • Press Release - MATRIX >
      • Press Release - MATRIX Verses I
      • Press Release - MATRIX Verses II
      • Press Release - MATRIX Verses III
    • Press Release - Tools & Ornaments >
      • Tools & Ornaments First Poem
      • Tools & Ornaments Second Poem
      • Tools & Ornaments Third Poem
    • Press Release - WHY CROWS IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES HAVE WHITE COLOR
    • Press Release - A Slight Thing, Happiness
    • Press Release - Nectar
    • Press Release - evolution psalms
    • Press Release - A Pilgrimage of Churches
    • Press Release - Bone Skid, Bone Beauty
    • Press Release - Girl Left Behind
    • Press Release - Reservoir
    • Press Release - Song of the Republic
    • Press Release - Like A Bird
    • Still-Life With God – Press Release
    • Press Release - THE LONG GRASS
    • Press Release - MESSIAH
    • Press Release - GLOSS
    • Press Release - Horizon of the Dog Woman
    • Press Release - ALONE IN CHURCH
    • Press Release - In My Fathers's House Are Many Mansions >
      • St. John Lutheran Church Cover Art
      • St. John Lutheran Church History
    • Bring Your Nights With You
    • Press Release - The Patron Saint of Cauliflower
    • Press Release - AMULET
    • Press Release - Deep Pockets
    • Nightbloom and Cenote
    • Dreamland Trash II
    • The Book of Trees – Press Release
    • PENIEL – Press Release
    • Press Release – NOW
    • Press Release - Hunger for Salt
    • Press Release Savor Eternity by Fred LaMotte
  • Press Releases II
    • Press Release Mermaids >
      • Poem One Mermaids
      • Poem Two Mermaids
      • Poem Three Mermaids
      • Poem Four Mermaids
    • Press Release - Somewhere >
      • Somewhere Poem One
      • Somewhere Poem Two
      • Somewhere Poem Three
      • Somewhere Poem Four
    • Press Release - Famine Chair >
      • Poems–Famine Chair
    • Press Release - On Friendship >
      • Chapter-Intro
    • Press Release - Katy Bridge >
      • AT NIGHT
      • IN THE PAUSE OF MORNING
      • FATHER, SON AND DISHES IN THE SINK
      • IN BANFF
    • Press Release - Shards of Time >
      • ENTANGLEMENTS
      • SHARDS
      • GALLERY OF THOUGHTS
      • Arrival Of the Albatross
    • Press Release - The Telling >
      • Press Release - Telling First Poem
      • Press Release - Telling Second Poem
      • Press Release - Telling Third Poem
    • Press Release - Notes from a Marine Biologist's Daughter >
      • Poem One - Notes
      • Poem Two - Notes
      • Poem Three - Notes
      • Poem Four - Notes
    • Press Release - FAME
    • Press Release - Portrait Before Dark
    • Bird Light Press Release
    • Press Release – EROS
    • Press Release - DHARMA RAIN
    • Press Release - FUEGO by LESLIE CONTRERAS SCHWARTZ
    • Press Release - Windward by Kevin McGrath
    • Press Release - There is Something About Being and Episcopalian
    • Press Release - When Angels Are Born >
      • Recordings from When Angels Are Born
    • Press Release - COAT THIEF by Jeffrey Davis
    • Press Release - Bearing the Cast
    • Press Release - Endless: A Literate Passion
    • Press Release - I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast
    • Press Release - The Angel and the Heretic by Britt Posmer
    • Press Release - Wounded Bud
    • Press Release - Variations on a Theme of Desire
  • Book Reviews
    • Democracy Awakening
    • The Abduction
    • King: A Life
    • The Book of John
    • And There Was Light
    • CITIZEN
    • Seeker and Monk
    • HOWLELUJAH
    • BIRNAM WOOD
    • BOSS BROAD
    • NIGHT LADDER
    • GIVING GODHEAD
    • YOGA MASS
    • NOW
    • EROS
    • DWELLING
    • LIFE IN SUSPENSION
    • BEYOND ELSEWHERE
    • Dreaming My Animal Selves
    • Tiferet Talk Interviews
    • Six Weeks to Yehidah
    • sometimes you sense the difference
  • Poetry–In–Film
  • Guest Authors I
    • William Miller >
      • Maha ‘ulepu Arch
      • Made In China
      • Reading Cheese
    • Peter Shefler >
      • The Japanese Red Maple I - The Seed
      • The Japanese Red Maple II - Fallen In The Frost
      • The Japanese Red Maple III - Seeking Shelter
    • Lois P. Jones and Peter Shefler
    • Susan Rogers >
      • The Origin is One
      • Kuan Yin
      • Awakening
    • George Jisho Robertson - Poetry >
      • passing moments [deceptive cadences]
      • veils of Persephone definitions of Demeter mysteries of Orpheus
      • Who Goes There
      • 3 Poems
  • Guest Authors II
    • Taoli-Ambika Talwar & Ron Starbuck >
      • Voices I
      • Voices II
      • Voices III
      • Voices IV
      • Voices V
      • Voices VI
      • Voices VII
      • Voices VIII
    • Anna Yin - Poetry >
      • Our Feelings Are Like a House
      • Present Is Beyond
      • The Night Garden
      • The Robin
      • Falling into Pieces
      • Window and Mirror
    • Carl Sandburg - Poetry >
      • Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind
      • TO A CONTEMPORARY BUNKSHOOTER
    • W.S. Merwin - Yesterday
    • W.B. Yeats - Recordings
    • Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
    • Langston Hughes - Poetry for Black History Month
  • In My Father's House Are Many Mansions
  • Paul F. Knitter - Interview
    • Jesus: The Way That is Open to Other Ways by theologian Paul F. Knitter
    • Paul F. Knitter - Short Essay
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  • Saint Julian Press Newest Books
  • Saint Julian Press Poets I
    • Poet - Anne McCrary Sullivan
    • Joan Baranow - Poetry >
      • New Mother Again
      • SPRING BIRTHS
      • Things He Said
      • Grandma
    • Liana-Aliki >
      • Time Was Destilled
      • I'll move the trees
      • I hold your hands in mine
      • Our love recalls
    • Tayve Neese - Poetry >
      • Harvest
      • Radioactive Boars
      • Athena's Owl
    • Jane Creighton >
      • Cy Twombly in the Thicket of Light
      • Standing in Gallery 8
      • The Trees on Prairie Road
    • Elaine Fletcher Chapman >
      • ​IN THE GREENING OF THE RESERVOIR
      • LATELY, THE RESERVOIR, MY OCEAN
      • URGENCY
      • AFTER JANE KENYON'S
      • LEAVING PATACARA
      • ANTICIPATION OF BLOSSOMS
      • HE MARKED MY BODY
    • Melissa Studdard – Like a Bird >
      • When the Birdsong Rings Human
    • Cynthia Atkins >
      • When The Internet Is The Loneliest Place On The Planet
      • Anorexia Nervosa
      • God Is A Library
    • LISA RHOADES >
      • IN THE BRIGHT WORLD
      • THE LONG GRASS
      • WORDS AT HAND
    • Wendy Barker >
      • ON THE CHINESE SCROLL
      • WHAT SURFACES
      • BELOW THE SALT
      • NOW I LEARN
    • REBECCA PELKY >
      • RITA DEL GARDI & THE NIXON PIGEON VANISH
      • For Those Who Need the True Story
      • When the Sun Dances into the Sky
      • Spell for Northern Girls: To Make Sea Glass
    • Andrea Messineo >
      • THE BEGINNING OF LABOR
      • PILGRIMAGE
      • ALL-NIGHT DINER
    • Anne Babson >
      • AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD
      • BEHOLD, A VIRGIN SHALL CONCEIVE
      • THUS SAITH THE LORD (TRANSPOSED FOR SOPRANO)
      • THE RICH YOUNG RULER
    • Elizabeth Cohen - Poetry >
      • Goulash
      • The Cabbage
      • Aftermath
      • THE BOOK OF SPARROW
      • BIRDLESS
      • BIRD ELIXIR
      • BIRD LIGHT ART
    • Stephanie Kartalopoulos – Poet >
      • SLOW FAIL – Stephanie Kartalopoulos
      • EL FORTUNA – Stephanie Kartalopoulos
      • INHERITANCE – Stephanie Kartalopoulos
    • Leslie Contreras Schwartz - Poetry >
      • Interview - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • CENOTE - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • PAPER DOLL CHAIN - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • THE COMAL AND MY HANDS - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • THE SWIM TO ANTARCTICA - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • LABOR PANTOUM - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
      • POSTPARTUM - Leslie Contreras Schwartz
    • Melissa Studdard - I Ate the Cosmos >
      • A PRAYER
      • Melissa Studdard - Bio
      • WE ARE THE UNIVERSE
      • Motion Poems Video - I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast
      • A Painting & Poet Connect
    • Dylan Krieger – Poet >
      • ghost porn
      • borderline
      • msg heard round the world
      • caption this conspiracy
    • Anne Tammel >
      • Anne Tammel ~ Poem ~ Amelia Earhart Drinks the Red Sea
      • Anne Tammel ~ Isa & Amelia
      • Anne Tammel ~ Amelia at the Red Sea
      • Anne Tammel ~ Poem ~ Endless: A Literate Passion
    • Britt Posmer - Poetry >
      • Britt Posmer - Poems from The Angel and the Heretic
    • David Brendan Hopes >
      • CHRISTMAS MORNING – HOPES
      • THE ANNUNCIATION – HOPES
      • ON THE ADORATION – HOPES
      • PENIEL – HOPES
    • Daniel Thomas – Poet >
      • WITHOUT THE MOCKINGBIRD – Daniel Thomas
      • HOME PREGNANCY TEST – Daniel Thomas
      • THE OLD BRIDGE – Daniel Thomas
    • Sean M. Conrey – Poet >
      • Apple – The Book of Trees
      • Ash – The Book of Trees
      • Hawthorn – The Book of Trees
    • Skip Renker >
      • SILENT REACH
      • A MOMENTARY OBEDIENCE
      • IN THE FEEL
    • Terry Lucas - Poetry >
      • PSALM '66 – SUMMER '63
      • SURRENDER
      • DHARMA RAIN
    • Jeffrey Davis - Poet >
      • 3 LAGOONS - Jeffrey Davis
      • COAT THIEF - Jeffrey Davis
      • DARKNESS - Jeffrey Davis
  • Saint Julian Press Poets II
    • Fred LaMotte >
      • Strangers & Pilgrims
      • Mustard Seed
      • Carnival
      • I KNOW MY DOG IS DREAMING
      • BUDDHISM 101
      • OPUS
      • GENTLE
      • The Heart Is A Field
      • A Little More Attention to the Breath
      • Ode to Blueberries
      • Morning Meditation
      • DON’T BE SATISFIED TOO SOON
      • Silence
      • Wanderers Welcome
      • ANAHATTA
      • What Both Names Mean
    • Kevin McGrath - Poetry >
      • FAME FIRST POEM
      • FAME SECOND POEM
      • FAME THIRD POEM
      • FAME FOURTH POEM
      • SONG–NINA
      • SONG–NORA
      • SONG–STELLA
      • SONG–TATIANA
      • EROS–ONE
      • EROS-TWO
      • EROS-TWO 34TH & 35TH
      • Rothko Murals Essay
      • THE MARINER SPEAKS
      • WINDWARD ~ ONE
      • WINDWARD ~ NINETEEN
      • WINDWARD ~ TWENTY SIX
      • WINDWARD ~ COVER ART
    • Ron Starbuck - Poetry >
      • Vesper
      • Natoma
      • St. John
      • US Center Chapel
      • Kýrie Eléison
      • Christmas Crèche
      • There Is Something About Being An Episcopalian
      • Rumi
      • Śūnyatā - Emptiness is Form; Form is Emptiness
      • VOICES
      • Storm Shadow
      • Trane Ascending
      • Advent
      • A Mockingbird's Song
      • There Are Times
      • Sandburg & Monroe (The Visit 1961)
      • Whenever You Watch Me
      • The Monarch
      • Park Avenue
      • Language of Poetry
      • Literature of Faith
    • Thomas Simmons >
      • Aliki Barnstone’s Art
      • NOW – SPLITTING APART
      • WHAT WAS THERE SILENT REVEL
      • IF BORGES’ LOVER
      • THE BODY OF HOPE
      • THE BODY AT REST
      • SADNESS
      • Benediction
      • These
      • Marriage
      • Unbetrothed
      • How It Was
      • Bethlehem
      • Star Light, Star Bright
    • Donna McKenzie - In a Tumbleweed Storm
    • David-Glen Smith >
      • David-Glen Smith ~ Saint Brendan and the Whale
      • David-Glen Smith ~ v.
      • David-Glen Smith ~ xii.
      • David-Glen Smith ~ Metamorphosis
      • Cover Art for Variations ~ Tread by Keith Perelli
  • Saint Julian Press Podcasts
  • Interconnections
  • Press Releases I
    • Press Release - Romance >
      • Romance Poem One
      • Romance Poem Two
      • Romance Poem Three
      • Romance Poem Four
      • Romance Poem Five
      • Romance Poem Six
    • Press Release Fox Dreams >
      • Poem One Fox Dreams
      • Poem Two Fox Dreams
      • Poem Three Fox Dreams
      • Poem Three Fox Dreams
    • Press Release - Rivers >
      • Rivers Poem One
      • Rivers Poem Two
      • Rivers Poem Three
      • Rivers Poem Four
    • Press Release - The Grief Committee Minutes >
      • Grief Poem One
      • Grief Poem Two
      • Grief Poem Three
      • Grief Poem Four
    • Press Release - Slow Walk Home >
      • Poems—I—Slow Walk Home
      • Poems—II—Slow Walk Home
      • Poems—III—Slow Walk Home
      • Poems—IV—Slow Walk Home
    • Press Release - The Tavern of Awakening >
      • Press Release - Die Taverne des Erwachens
      • German & English Poems
    • Press Release - Strangers & Pilgrims >
      • Strangers & Pilgrims Poem One
      • Strangers & Pilgrims Poem Two
      • Strangers & Pilgrims Poem Three
      • Strangers & Pilgrims Poem Four
    • Press Release - MATRIX >
      • Press Release - MATRIX Verses I
      • Press Release - MATRIX Verses II
      • Press Release - MATRIX Verses III
    • Press Release - Tools & Ornaments >
      • Tools & Ornaments First Poem
      • Tools & Ornaments Second Poem
      • Tools & Ornaments Third Poem
    • Press Release - WHY CROWS IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES HAVE WHITE COLOR
    • Press Release - A Slight Thing, Happiness
    • Press Release - Nectar
    • Press Release - evolution psalms
    • Press Release - A Pilgrimage of Churches
    • Press Release - Bone Skid, Bone Beauty
    • Press Release - Girl Left Behind
    • Press Release - Reservoir
    • Press Release - Song of the Republic
    • Press Release - Like A Bird
    • Still-Life With God – Press Release
    • Press Release - THE LONG GRASS
    • Press Release - MESSIAH
    • Press Release - GLOSS
    • Press Release - Horizon of the Dog Woman
    • Press Release - ALONE IN CHURCH
    • Press Release - In My Fathers's House Are Many Mansions >
      • St. John Lutheran Church Cover Art
      • St. John Lutheran Church History
    • Bring Your Nights With You
    • Press Release - The Patron Saint of Cauliflower
    • Press Release - AMULET
    • Press Release - Deep Pockets
    • Nightbloom and Cenote
    • Dreamland Trash II
    • The Book of Trees – Press Release
    • PENIEL – Press Release
    • Press Release – NOW
    • Press Release - Hunger for Salt
    • Press Release Savor Eternity by Fred LaMotte
  • Press Releases II
    • Press Release Mermaids >
      • Poem One Mermaids
      • Poem Two Mermaids
      • Poem Three Mermaids
      • Poem Four Mermaids
    • Press Release - Somewhere >
      • Somewhere Poem One
      • Somewhere Poem Two
      • Somewhere Poem Three
      • Somewhere Poem Four
    • Press Release - Famine Chair >
      • Poems–Famine Chair
    • Press Release - On Friendship >
      • Chapter-Intro
    • Press Release - Katy Bridge >
      • AT NIGHT
      • IN THE PAUSE OF MORNING
      • FATHER, SON AND DISHES IN THE SINK
      • IN BANFF
    • Press Release - Shards of Time >
      • ENTANGLEMENTS
      • SHARDS
      • GALLERY OF THOUGHTS
      • Arrival Of the Albatross
    • Press Release - The Telling >
      • Press Release - Telling First Poem
      • Press Release - Telling Second Poem
      • Press Release - Telling Third Poem
    • Press Release - Notes from a Marine Biologist's Daughter >
      • Poem One - Notes
      • Poem Two - Notes
      • Poem Three - Notes
      • Poem Four - Notes
    • Press Release - FAME
    • Press Release - Portrait Before Dark
    • Bird Light Press Release
    • Press Release – EROS
    • Press Release - DHARMA RAIN
    • Press Release - FUEGO by LESLIE CONTRERAS SCHWARTZ
    • Press Release - Windward by Kevin McGrath
    • Press Release - There is Something About Being and Episcopalian
    • Press Release - When Angels Are Born >
      • Recordings from When Angels Are Born
    • Press Release - COAT THIEF by Jeffrey Davis
    • Press Release - Bearing the Cast
    • Press Release - Endless: A Literate Passion
    • Press Release - I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast
    • Press Release - The Angel and the Heretic by Britt Posmer
    • Press Release - Wounded Bud
    • Press Release - Variations on a Theme of Desire
  • Book Reviews
    • Democracy Awakening
    • The Abduction
    • King: A Life
    • The Book of John
    • And There Was Light
    • CITIZEN
    • Seeker and Monk
    • HOWLELUJAH
    • BIRNAM WOOD
    • BOSS BROAD
    • NIGHT LADDER
    • GIVING GODHEAD
    • YOGA MASS
    • NOW
    • EROS
    • DWELLING
    • LIFE IN SUSPENSION
    • BEYOND ELSEWHERE
    • Dreaming My Animal Selves
    • Tiferet Talk Interviews
    • Six Weeks to Yehidah
    • sometimes you sense the difference
  • Poetry–In–Film
  • Guest Authors I
    • William Miller >
      • Maha ‘ulepu Arch
      • Made In China
      • Reading Cheese
    • Peter Shefler >
      • The Japanese Red Maple I - The Seed
      • The Japanese Red Maple II - Fallen In The Frost
      • The Japanese Red Maple III - Seeking Shelter
    • Lois P. Jones and Peter Shefler
    • Susan Rogers >
      • The Origin is One
      • Kuan Yin
      • Awakening
    • George Jisho Robertson - Poetry >
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Poems for Meditation
Gedichte zur Meditation
 
​Die einfachste Meditation
 
„Einatmen mit dem ganzen Körper, Ausatmen mit dem ganzen Körper.“ ~Buddha, Satipatthana Sutra
 
Dieser Körper ist das Tor zum Jetzt, der Weg, der vom abstrakten Schatten zur strahlenden Empfindung führt. Die Empfindungen im Körper sind kostbare spirituelle Juwelen, die erwecken, was ist. 
Die einfache Empfindung des Atems, der durch meinen Körper aufsteigt und fällt, bringt mich von den Träumen der Vergangenheit und der Zukunft zurück auf den festen Boden der Gegenwart.
 
Atmen ist das reinste Gebet. Im Gewahrsein des Atems lösen wir die Kluft zwischen Geist und Körper, Himmel und Erde, dem vorgestellten Ideal und der Wirklichkeit auf.
 
 
 
The Simplest Meditation
 
“Breathing in with the whole body, breathing out with the whole body.”
~ Buddha, Satipatthana Sutra
 
This body is the doorway to now, the path that leads from abstract shadow to radiant sensation. Sensations in the body are precious spiritual jewels, awakening what is. The simple sensation of breath, rising and falling through my body, transports me back from the dreams of past and future to the solid ground of Presence.
 
Breathing is the purest prayer. In awareness of breath, we dissolve the gap between mind and body, heaven and earth, the ideal and the real.
​I Am the Way
 
One who speaks of a Way
is already lost.
One who seeks for an Other
is always lonely.
Christ says, I Am the Way,
the Truth, and the Life.
It is not the voice
of an ancient Palestinian rabbi,
but your voice, the roar I Am
from the golden core of your body.
You are the Way, 
breathed by the Truth,
pulsing with eternal Life
this moment.
How do I know? 
I learned it from the silence 
of an Autumn rose
bursting in my garden. 
I heard it from a caterpillar
falling all Winter long
deeper, deeper into the chrysalis,
chanting her mantra,
“Spring.”
Ich bin der Weg
 
Der von einem Weg spricht,
ist bereits verloren.
Der nach einem anderen sucht,
ist immer einsam.
Christus sagt, Ich bin der Weg,
die Wahrheit und das Leben.
Es ist nicht die Stimme
eines antiken palästinensischen Rabbiners,
sondern deine Stimme, der Schrei Ich Bin
aus dem goldenen Innersten deines Körpers.
Du bist der Weg, 
geatmet von der Wahrheit,
pulsierend mit dem ewigen Leben 
dieses Augenblicks.
Woher ich das weiß? 
Ich lernte es von der Stille
einer Herbstrose,
die in meinem Garten aufblüht.
Ich hörte es von einer Raupe,
die den ganzen Winter über 
tiefer, immer tiefer in die Puppe sinkt
und dabei ihr Mantra singt:
„Frühling.“
​
​Einladung in die heilige Dunkelheit
 
„Die Quelle meines Kummers und meiner Einsamkeit liegt tief in meiner Brust: Das ist eine Krankheit, die kein Arzt heilen kann. Nur die Vereinigung mit dem Freund kann sie heilen.“ ~Rabi'a
 
Die Dunkelheit der Liebe ist die Farbe der Stille. Sinke in diese sinnliche Dunkelheit. Um das Licht zu erreichen, musst du aufsteigen, aber um die göttliche Dunkelheit zu umarmen, brauchst du nur zu fallen. Gib die Arbeit des Aufsteigens auf. Lass die Schwerkraft dein Gebet sein.
 
Sei, wo das Licht geboren wird, ein Same, der in die mütterliche Furche der Stille fällt. Das absolut Unbeschreibliche ist der Schoß von allem.
 
„Amma, Mutter, ich bin machtlos! Du bist die einzige Macht. Ich falle, aber ich falle in den Abgrund deiner Gnade. Meine eigene Hoffnungslosigkeit ist die unendliche Tiefe deines Herzens. Nicht ich, Mutter, sondern Du. Du bist überall, oben und unten, tiefer in mir als mein eigenes Wesen.“
 
 
Invitation to Sacred Darkness
 
“The source of my grief and loneliness is deep in my breast: this is a disease no doctor can cure. Only union with the Friend can cure it.” ~Rabi'a
 
The darkness of love is the color of silence. Sink into this voluptuous darkness. To attain the light, you must ascend, but to embrace divine darkness, you need only fall. Give up the work of rising. Let gravity be your prayer.
 
Be where the light is born, a seed dropped into the mothering furrow of silence. The absolutely ineffable is the womb of all.
 
“Amma, Mother, I am powerless! You are the only power. I am falling, but I am falling into the abyss of your grace. My very hopelessness is the infinite depth of your heart. Not I, Mother, but you. You are All around, above and below, deeper inside me than my own being.”
Downward
 
Use the night to wash 
the sunlight from your wings.
 
Ascending into glory
has made you stiff.
 
Let gravity be your prayer.
Plummet with valor.
 
A mother draws you down
to her umber breasts.
 
Mingle in the pull of that deeper love.
Cease to struggle 
 
against what makes you heavy 
and you will be weightless.
 
Anoint your forehead 
with grass and soil.
 
Unpolish yourself.
Into your bright wounds rub 
 
the tincture of darkness.
God wants to be all of you.
 
Abwärts
 
Nutze die Nacht, um das Sonnenlicht 
von deinen Flügeln zu waschen.
 
Der Aufstieg in die Herrlichkeit
lies dich starr werden.
 
Lass die Schwerkraft dein Gebet sein.
Sinke mit Wagemut.
 
Eine Mutter zieht dich hinab
zu ihren bernsteinfarbenen Brüsten.
 
Verschmelze mit dem Sog dieser tieferen Liebe.
Hör auf anzukämpfen
 
gegen das, was dich belastet
und du wirst schwerelos sein.
 
Salbe deine Stirn
mit Gras und Erde.
 
Leg den Glanz ab.
In deine blanken Wunden streiche
 
die Tinktur der Dunkelheit.
Gott will ganz bei dir sein.
​Wings
 
All the miracles
you do not notice
this summer morning
fly back to their Creator
on disappointed wings,
amber-gold salmon berry,
liquid amethyst on
the lip of a maidenhair fern,
crocosmia, this
tooth of Lucifer;
while all the miracles
that you behold
fold their wings to settle
in the commonplace.
“Let there be light”
Is not a Word from
the beginning, but a shout
In the language of now.
Creation remains
unfinished, friend,
without the beams
of your attention.
Have you never grown
still enough to hear
The first commandment?
“Thou shalt notice the toadstool,
the forget-me-not, a web 
of dew, a pebble.”
You are here to perceive
the miraculous wings
of the ordinary.
Your astonishment
completes the design.
​
Flügel
 
All die Wunder,
die Du nicht bemerkst
diesen Sommermorgen
fliegen zurück zu ihrem Schöpfer
auf enttäuschten Flügeln,
bernsteingoldene Pracht-Himbeere,
flüssiger Amethyst auf
der Lippe eines Frauenhaarfarns,
Schwertlilie, dieser
Zahn Luzifers;
während all die Wunder,
die du beachtest,
ihre Flügel falten, sich niederzulassen
im Gewöhnlichen.
„Es werde Licht“
ist nicht ein Wort vom
Anfang, sondern ein Schrei
in der Sprache des Jetzt.
Die Schöpfung bleibt
unvollendet, Freund,
ohne die Strahlen
deiner Aufmerksamkeit.
Bist du nie 
still genug geworden,
das erste Gebot zu hören?
„Du sollst den Fliegenpilz beachten,
das Vergissmeinnicht, ein Spinnennetz 
voll Tau, den Kieselstein.“
Du bist hier die 
wundersamen Flügel
des Gewöhnlichen wahrzunehmen.
Dein Staunen
vervollständigt den göttlichen Entwurf.
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