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A Poem by Sir Geoffrey Hill In Memory of Andrew Parker – Priest and Poet

December 29, 2018 – 11:05 am

7 Lachrimae Amantis (Tears of the Lover) What is there in my heart that you should sue so fiercely for its love? What kind of care brings you as though a stranger to my door through the long night and in the icy dew seeking the heart that will not harbor you, that keeps itself […]

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Priest and Poet – Andy Parker – 1957-2018

December 18, 2018 – 7:38 pm

The Triumph of Love from CXLVIII So – Croker, MacSikker, O’Shem – I ask you what are poems for? They are to console us with their own gift, which is like perfect pitch. Let us commit that to our dust. What ought a poem to be? Answer, a sad and angry consolation. What is the […]

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A Poem for Andy – Waiting for Surgery on July 12th, 2018

July 10, 2018 – 10:34 pm

Waiting A sound so loud: a dry leaf falling. The ground littered with yellow silences. I walked here with you once, the Arbutus grove, their leaves dropping and their copper peeling, the new-skin green underneath. New skin. How many times dear Lord our new skin? Each green silence? Richard Osler, unpublished 2018 It is not […]

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