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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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      • veils of Persephone definitions of Demeter mysteries of Orpheus
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TRANE ASCENDING


A MEDITATION




​Pursuance ~ A Love Supreme ~ John Coltrane

Picture
Impressionistic Art Image ~ Based on Francis Wolff ~ John Coltrane ~ "Blue Train" session September 15, 1957 ~​Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
TRANE ASCENDING ~ A MEDITATION

by Ron Starbuck


Acknowledgement – Resolution – Pursuance – Psalm            

                                                                                    Transcendence
 


​jazz that’s pure, free, and clear, 

                                                                                     the soul knows what it needs
 
a sacramental  prayer –

                                                                                     music resounds 
with both

hot 
and cool tones
 
playing over the keyboard of  your body
 
                                                                                       call it:

the 
yoga of  –  "The  John Coltrane Quartet"
 
tenor sax
   piano
   four note double bass
drums and cymbals
 
                                                                                        a musical riff moves
                                                                                        up and down your spine
                                                                                        and 
then inside each cell

 
keys changing here          
   
and then there
cool and vibrant                                                        and boiling on the mind’s surface
                                                                                       in between

                                                                                       each passing thought

 
awakening the deepest memories

                                                                                       then opens up slowly
 
to a moment
    a long meditation
    a lover’s soft
​and lingering kiss

 
                                                                                      while sitting in an intimate
                                                                                      darkened room



where moving light forms
   dance in and with and 
through - the air
 
                                                                                      angels pirouette
                                                                                      before their maker
                                                                                      spinning streams
                                                                                      ribbons of light
 
the holy spirit whispers

  delicate sweet notes and tones
 
                                                                                      turning and twisting
                                                                                      lightly around

 
and in perfect unison
  seize the soul 
transport the spirit
 
each musical note and phrase                               touching some part
                                                                                      of your being and
                                                                                      
washing it fresh and clean

 
“sheets of sound” hovering over you
                                                                                      moving inside you
 
into the bones and marrow and cells 
                                                                                      of your body
 
bringing some instant clarity of
  thought into your world
look you can see forever now
                                                                                       past all illusion
 
something new revealed
          a deeper revelation
                                                                                       a new creation ascends
 
the mind’s ascension
                                                                                       a love supreme
 
i don’t know what else to name it                        do you?
 
                                be still
                                                                                       listen freely
                                                                                       listen inside 
                                                                                       this stillness

 
 
 
​

 
Ron Starbuck - © 2014

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