prayer

Reading: Prayer by Carol Ann Duffy

Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1946) has said "poetry and prayer are very similar". Here is her 1993 poem "prayer": Prayer Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer utters itself. So, a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands and stare at the minims sung by a tree, a ...

Reading: In the Midnight Hour by Charles Wright

Charles Wright (b. 1935) is of course 'one of the best poets of his generation'. Raised in rural Tennessee. Influenced by Ezra Pound. Many prizes. I learn that is poetry forms a complex whole, so we are looking at a fragment here: In the midnight hour This, too, is an old story, yet It is ...

Give us the courage to think for ourselves to question the authority that lives in us When blackness befalls the history we make Don't seduce us to become what we hate most In the name of the father, the son, and the holocaust.

Prayer

My Savior is the Absurd That changes faster Than my prejudice I hold my heads up To brush the world's light With my eyelashes My Savior knows What it means to be finite Everything becomes high A trumpet grows out of my nose, Or a clarinet A tuba perhaps You really can't tell Other extremities ...