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Failed Species?

A POEM

By Ralph Wright, O.S.B. | July-August 1984

For twenty million years or more

This planet fed the Dinosaur.

It makes you sit a while and think

How soon young Man may be extinct.

But though he turn this chip of star

To ash touched from some fine cigar

When all the galaxies are dark

Man still will reign who shares God’s heart.

Autobiography of a Creature from Deep Heaven

I was the spark

who lit the face of God

when he flicked his rod

…

The Night the Sauerkraut Exploded

The night the sauerkraut

Exploded we were all

Asleep. In dreams we heard

The awful…

To Phoebe*

Phoebe,

Gentle handmaid

Of us all,

Who assisted Paul

And others

Of the early church,

…