Spring 2001, Vol. 50, No. 3
Introduction
JILL PELAEZ BAUMGAERTNER 401
Poetry
Out of That Darkness: A Christmas Meditation
ANTHONY S. ABBOTT 403
For Bryan, Last Bike Ride of the Summer
MARY BALAZS 405
Snowfall
CAROL BARRETT 406
A Reading Light 408
A Straight Look 409
How It Begins 410
Straightening the Year 411
The Snow Plough Man 412
LIONEL BASNEY
Avernus: Safe Conduct
JENE E. BEARDSLEY 436
The Visions of Enoch
SCOTT CAIRNS 437
The Song of Margery Kempe
JENNIFER CALL 439
Lent
JIM CALLAHAN 440
Orpheus at Epiphany 441
Orpheus in Summer 443
Orpheus of Earth 444
CHARLES CANTALUPO
I Went to Find You 445
Rain, Early Morning, Bardsey Island 446
Virgin and Child 447
KELLY CHERRY
Bind
KEITH COX 448
Matthew 4:18-22 and Matthew 4:23-25 450
A Poem Delivered 451
Only One Face: From the Last Conversations of St. Therese 453
The Firehouse Art Center 454
DAVID CRAIG
Lord, Let Light
SANDRA R. DUGUID 456
Venetian Blinds, with Apologies to Emily
BILL ELLIS 457
Poetry 458
Unicorn Stalker 459
Untitled 460
WILLIAM EPPERSON
Jesu
WILLIAM FANNING 462
After the Resurrection
GENE FENDT 463
A Measure of Waste
SUZANNE J. FOSBERG 464
For an Evening, a Day, and a Morning
RICHARD FOSS 465
Denying Tenure
NICHOLAS GIESE 467
Interrogations at Noon 468
Unsaid 469
Pentecost 470
The Litany 471
The Archbishop 473
Song for the End of Time 474
DANA GIOIA
Plotinus
GERALD HARNETT 475
The Poetry Surgeon 476
Thought Fishing 477
EDWARD HIGGINS
Dog City after Dark
RICK HILL 478
Dinah’s Song Before the Lord
CATHE HOERTH 479
Tennebrae 481
To a Friend 483
NANCY ESTHER JAMES
At Summer’s End 484
Float 485
In the Mission Garden 486
Mockingbird 487
Wild Grapes 488
JEAN JANZEN
Geometer 489
What the Blind Woman Saw. The Judgment 490
What the Blind Woman Saw. The Witness 491
STEVEN LAUTERMILCH
Spring Lesson 497
Stilling Death 498
The Fire Burns Low 499
Trolling the Kennebec 501
JOHN LEAX
When the Vision is Gone
MICHAEL H. LYTHGOE 503
Clare of Assisi, Patron Saint of Television 504
Gabriel, Patron Saint of Postal Workers 505
Joseph of Arimathea, Patron Saint of Funeral Directors 506
The Scared Heart of Jesus 507
MARJORIE MADDOX
The Salmon Contemplates Mortality
LINDA MALNACK 508
The Sacrifice of Isaac
D.S. MARTIN 509
Once: Twelve Terns 510
On Assignment 511
ELVA MCALLASTER
Afterword 512
Purgatory 513
JANET MCCANN
Among the Elders 516
Elder Brother 517
The Loneliness of Jesus 518
A Midrash on the Kingdom Prayer 519
Heaven Tree 520
Into the Whirlwind 521
To Thomas Merton 522
SUSAN MCCASLIN
After the Lunar Eclipse 523
Alone at Dawn with the Blinds Raised 524
That Child Abandoned on the Porch 525
WALT MCDONALD
Fractioning-for my Brother upon Losing an Eye 526
Lot’s Wife 527
My Blood Flies West 528
STELLA NESANOVICH
Stop-Over, the Year A.D.
JAMES NOLAN 529
“This is…for you” 531
In Memoriam, Ruth Steffler 532
MARK A. NOLL
I. David Has Slain His Ten Thousands 533
II. Bathsheba Brought to the Palace after an Evening Bath 534
III. Sins of the Fathers 535
IV. David Included in the Lineage of Christ 536
CHRISTINE ZUBROD PERRIN
Probable Loss
JOAN F. PETERSON 537
Thanksgiving 1987
JONATHAN POTTER 538
My Father Can You See Me 539
The Bottle Men 540
ELIZABETH REVERE
A Praise for Maggie Nana
ROSAMOND ROSENMEIER 541
Passing Over: Easter Dawn
LARRY RUBIN 543
Before the Name, Translated from the Portuguese by Adelia Prado
JO C. SEARLESS 544
Freezing Rain 545
Reflections 546
Split Screen: Multi-Media 547
The Labors of Angels 548
LUCI SHAW
Poems of a Survivor 549
What I Remember 549
Scars 550
Waking Dream 551
Looking Back 552
Question and Answer 553
KATHLEEN HENDERSON STAUDT
Good Friday
CAROLYN STEVENS 554
On On 555
A Stadium Full of Bears 556
MARK STEVICK
The Exaltation of Adam: Naming Names
MICHAEL F. SUAREZ, S.J. 557
The Raven’s Complaint
DONN TAYLER 558
The Piero Poems: The Nativity
ROLAND THARP 559
Tintern Abbey
STEPHEN M. THYBERG 560
A Villanelle for Advent
CATHERINE BROWN TKACZ 561
Dear Dr. Faustus 562
Sonnet 563
THOMAS TRZYNA
In Search of Gryphons 564
Triduum 565
MARTHA M. VERTREACE
The Covenant 566
Annunciation Triolet 567
CORY WADE
Portrait of the Virgin Who Said No to Gabriel 568
Chaplin 569
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover 571
Miss Gifford, Homeroom Teacher 572
Where to Look for Miss Gifford 573
Perfect Day 574
JEANNE MURRAY WALKER
Christographia XXIV 575
Christographia XXVIII 576
EUGENE WARREN
Palacio Real, Madrid 577
The Necessity of Symbols 578
THOMAS RAMEY WATSON
Captions for Nine Photographs of Deformed and Crippled Children 579
The Second Coming 581
WINSTON WEATHERS
How to Use the Kaleidoscope 583
He Considers the English Novel 584
CHRIS WILLERTON
Apologia 585
Proposed: 586
Firstfruits 587
The Grave of C.S. Lewis 588
The Guard 589
DONALD T. WILLIAMS
In the Heart of the Park 590
Hope As She Is 591
Hope Whispering Poems in America 592
In the Beginning 593
What If 594
THARIN WILLIAMSON
The Attempt 595
Tower of Babel 596
Rosing from the Dead 597
Lear Again 598
Unsweet Sorrow in Western New York 599
PAUL WILLIS
Praise God
JOHNNY WINK 600
Towards a Grammar of Ascent 601
MICHAEL G. YETMAN
Wallflower
VAL ZANDSTRA 604