WB selects Merton Poetry Prize

The Merton Institute for Contemplative Living.

The 2009 Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred

Dementia
by Gayle Reed Carroll of Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania

Deep in trees, birds sang with so much heart
they seemed to dance on the risky twigs
Leaves shuddered, moved by a man's restive excitement.
Or was it he, moved by the passion of leaves?
His house had lodged itself among the branches.
But that was his time of longing.

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