By Daniel Leach10 hours ago2 minOde: Spring MourningThe first soft days of springtime greet my eyes Like a young girl’s face, smiling fresh and clean, The sunlight falls, like hope, from...
Fr. Dwight Longenecker10 hours ago5 minListening to "Burnt Norton"I’m using the word “listening” in this series on Eliot’s Four Quartets to suggest not only that the poetry should be read aloud or...
By Daniel Platt2 days ago1 minLooking DownBehold, she dangles, helpless in the sky, Affrighted by the curving earth below: It beckons so seductively, as though 'Twould be a...
By James A. Tweedie4 days ago1 minClay PotsAnd yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay and you are the Potter. We are all formed by your hand. Isaiah 64:8 God takes a ball...
By David B. Gosselin7 days ago9 minFrom the Beautiful to the Sublime: Schiller's "Guides of Life"Two kinds of genius may escort you throughout life. True Goodness falls on him who lets them lead as one. Beauty enlivens and makes brief...
By Caitlin JohnstoneMay 196 minI MarvelI marvel at the way elderly couples can walk together with such delicateness that it’s like they’re holding the fate of the world in...
By Lily PrigionieroMay 152 minRestoring Pontormo’s VeronicaI swear he breathed down my neck. I smelled his pungent manhood, grimy crusts on his pant thighs he was no faint knight— a madman in...
TranslationMay 122 minSappho Fragments 2, 55, and 58Sappho, fragment 2 (Lobel-Page 2 / Voigt 2 / Diehl 5, 6 / Bergk 4, 5) Come, Cypris, from Cretea to meet me at this holy temple where a...
By Richard KatrovasMay 121 minA Riff on Abstraction"Evil is the systematic substitution of the abstract for the concrete." —Sartre As in “concrete” as well as “abstract,” and though I...