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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.

An Apostrophe to Wordsworth’s Period

Wordsworth, thou shouldst be living at

this hour.

England hath need of thee, so hath…

Compassion

Ice in the spirit

Is but frozen tears

And bitterness

Is expectation killed.

To Phoebe*

Phoebe,

Gentle handmaid

Of us all,

Who assisted Paul

And others

Of the early church,

…