Read the poem "Peace Parenthetical (The Daniel Berrigan Weekend)"
(The September 22 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)
Peace Parenthetical
(The Daniel Berrigan Weekend)
by Cozad Taylor 1982
Our tears longed to cut
Deep furrows in your face:
To mark you with crescents
Fertile below your eyes,
To set off messages
Parenthetic in your face,
To tell us, just us,
How to live our anxious lives.
(With hardly time for grace
you joined my meal, blessed
To bring forth strength and fear,
Ate a bite and pushed away your chair.)
Late we sat before you,
Row after row,
Awaiting exclamation or reclamation
Of our suburban lives.
But Sunday came
And then the rain
Ended our period of
Requited pain."
(The September 22 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)
Peace Parenthetical
(The Daniel Berrigan Weekend)
by Cozad Taylor 1982
Our tears longed to cut
Deep furrows in your face:
To mark you with crescents
Fertile below your eyes,
To set off messages
Parenthetic in your face,
To tell us, just us,
How to live our anxious lives.
(With hardly time for grace
you joined my meal, blessed
To bring forth strength and fear,
Ate a bite and pushed away your chair.)
Late we sat before you,
Row after row,
Awaiting exclamation or reclamation
Of our suburban lives.
But Sunday came
And then the rain
Ended our period of
Requited pain."
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