Today I affect
the stillness of stone as the
voices rise and fall
in the coffee house.
I read: “Radiant atone-
ness outside itself
for what is other.”
That’s good (God) but today I’m
just me at a turn-
ing point in my life.
Next Saturday God will be
God in Rhode Island.
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Not a bad place to be, this sweet little Roger Williams state.
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The poem’s monumentum gathers through the poet’s self-dramatization to culminate in the view of the future and the sweep across future landscapes. The poem comes to a resolution that opens the reader to what lies beyond the poem, the poet, and the reader – the plenitude of the source of reality. The poem has a feeling of inevitable yet surprising motion and finally lift.
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