poetry

Discover U.S. Catholic poetry that explore faith, the beauty of creation through the art of language, and a deeper appreciation of the spiritual life.

For Theodore, One Day Old

He has traveled so far, he must sleep nowthe profound sleep of the laborer. Fluorescent lights dangle like white monsters.Slowly his universe magnifies to four...

Altar Boys

Through the neighbor’s yardpast the decomposing woodpilewhere once a ruby red fox had burrowedand given birth to three little jewels of her ownbefore animal...

Insolvent Trees

This crazy world is almost overAnd I never got the chance to plant a tree.A tree the way that trees used to be.We live in them now since the plague—Or rather...

The Blessings of Water

We are flesh made for water, bone and soul. Our thirst cries out, gritty voices longing for still waters, the promise of rescue. Delivering the remnant from...

All those saints

eating disease to be one with the world to live as fully as possible in awareness of all of it Licking wounds You get used to it Drinking the water at the...

American Isolate

“Snake venom is used to cure snakebites!” —Tehching Hsieh First. Note the pattern of all growing things. Each has an elegant unconsciousness calling that being...

Cyclops

Imagine the Cyclops seeing the fiery stake nearing his bleary eye, how his entire world was light and then nothing but darkness. Imagine Jesus in the tomb with...