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With Mercy for the Greedy

Posted September 14th, 2010

It is dedicated for my friend Ruth who urges me to make an appointment with the sacrament of confession and the title is ‘With Mercy for the Greedy’.

With Mercy for the Greedy

Concerning your letter in which you ask
me to call a priest and in which you ask
me to wear The Cross that you enclose;
your [...]

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Her Kind

Posted January 30th, 2010

Her Kind

I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light:
lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.
A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.

I have found the warm caves in the woods,
filled them with skillets, carvings, [...]

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