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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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Lois P. Jones & Peter Shefler  - Where Peter's work serves as a lovely and gentle invocation to this poem by Lois.


To the Moon on the Subject of Darkness


Picture
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                  Landing -
                                                                                                                  Phosphor lapping at the edges
                                                                                                                  of the shore, mingled
                                                                                                                  with moonlight, full upon the swaying
                                                                                                                  of your bower - nightingales are still
                                                                                                                  now silent in the cedars, awed
                                                                                                                  by the disturbance of clouds
                                                                                                                  across the face of Artemis -
                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                  O, Orion has not yet risen
                                                                                                                  from his bed to join you, perpetually
                                                                                                                  waiting - wind
                                                                                                                  in the willow oaks - sway
                                                                                                                  with them, sleeping
                                                                                                                  in the slack water
  
                                                                                                                  your dreams
                                                                                                                  tremble
                                                                                                                  in the resoundment.


                                                                                                                  by Peter Shefler                   
 

                                                                                                        To the Moon on the Subject of Darkness
                                                                                                                                   If anyone ever addressed you, it was
                                                                                                                                   with a breathless “where are you going?”  R.M. Rilke
 
                                                                                                                  I have been waiting
                                                                                                                          and now you appear
                                                                                                                  between dark branches
                                                                                                                           luminous as a man

                                                                                                                  who has seen the edge
                                                                                                                           of the universe.  I’ve missed
                                                                                                                  you and asked questions
                                                                                                                            of everything white: 

                                                                                                                  frost birch and fog,
                                                                                                                           an egret feather that fell
                                                                                                                  into the palm, snow’s possibility
                                                                                                                           of rumor, even your missing

                                                                                                                  reflection but night
                                                                                                                           moved to the bed
                                                                                                                  of the river and stood nude
                                                                                                                            and mute in its shadow. 

                                                                                                                  The sky, like me, emptied too,
                                                                                                                            but for a few stars
                                                                                                                  who dared to tell
                                                                                                                            you were the same

                                                                                                                  moon who made a mirror
                                                                                                                            of yourself in the white
                                                                                                                  fruited Rowan, who sheltered the poet
                                                                                                                            as he slept in the cradle

                                                                                                                  of the sphinx.  The one
                                                                                                                            who lit the face
                                                                                                                  of Buddha as he realized
                                                                                                                            that nothing is ever lost

                                                                                                                  in the universe.  The last time
                                                                                                                            I saw you, you were waning
                                                                                                                  gibbous, floating east as a daydream,
                                                                                                                            in the blue.  Like Orion I have learned

                                                                                                                  to wait.  I can lose this belt of stars. 
                                                                                                                            We are, each of us, astronomers
                                                                                                                  and I am not afraid to leave you alone
                                                                                                                            with what is yours.

 
                                                                                                                  by Lois P. Jones  



To the Moon on the Subject of Darkness
by Lois P. Jones
Copyright 2011


Landing -     
Photography and Poem as Invocation
by Peter Shefler
Copyright 2011


Lois P. Jones and Peter Shefler are poets and friends. This is a collaboration, where Peter's work serves as a lovely invocation and complement to the beautiful and evocative poem written by Lois, To the Moon on the Subject of Darkness.

Lois P. Jones's poetry and photographs have been published in American Poetry Journal, Raven Chronicles, Qarrtsiluni, Rose & Thorn, Tiferet, and other print and on-line journals in the U.S. and abroad.  She is co-founder of Word Walker Press and since 2008 she has hosted KPFK’s long-running radio series in Los Angeles, Poet’s Cafe (90.7 FM Pacifica Radio), produced by Marlena Bond.  Lois co-produces Moonday West in the Pacific Palisades and Moonday East at Flintridge Books.  She is the Poetry Editor of Kyoto Journal and a 2009/2010 Pushcart Nominee as well as a 2010/2011 nominee for Best New Poets.  In 2010 her poem “Ouija” was selected as Poem of the Year by judge Dana Goodyear.  

Poet’s Cafe - http://www.timothy-green.org/blog/poetscafe/

Kyoto Journal - http://www.kyotojournal.org/

http://moondaypoetry.com/lois-p-jones.html

Peter Shefler was born in 1950 and raised in a remote rural area of Western Pennsylvania filled with the wonders of nature, and nurtured by a family of visual artists, Peter Shefler has been writing poetry since the age of twelve. He began a study of ancient mythologies and the creative process shortly thereafter and finished his formal education in English literature and poetry at Reed College in Portland Oregon. Over the ensuing decades he mastered the practice of a number of the realms of the visual arts, finally specializing in photography, but always came back to poetry for his deepest expressions of a sometimes devastating and sometimes ecstatic but always richly emotional continuum of personal experiences and observations.

Always seeking to maintain a deep connection to the mystery of the natural world and the spiritual aspects involved in the creation of art, Peter often combines his poetry with photographic images — the poem sometimes inspiring the creation of the photograph, and the photograph often inspiring the mood of the poem. He is currently working on A Book of Colors, listing several thousand historical color names interspersed with photographs of the natural world highlighting those colors and a compilation of poetry and other literature that contains the names of those colors.

Photography: http://www.facebook.com/media/albums/?id=100000571690647

Poetry & Other Notes: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000571690647&sk=notes

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