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Between a Rock and a Heart Place

:	Rick Wilson, T.O.R.
:	Between a Rock and a Heart Place
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:	English

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Winner of the David Lloyd Kreeger Creativity Award (1988) and the George Mason University Poetry Prize (1976), Brother Rick Wilson, T.O.R., presents here a collection of his finest creative writing-poems of family, love, suffering and memory. His poems are vivid, intelligent, musical, and intimate.

“Sound is wonderfully wedded to sense here... This is a book which yields up in richness what I most long for when I pick up a book of poems: vision, experience, travel in the world as another soul views it.”-Richard Bausch. O. Henry Award, PEN/ Faulkner Award Citation.

BENEDICTION (p. 7)

("St. Anthony went to the mouth of the river by the sea, and began to call the fishes in God`s name.")

Little Flowers of St. Francis

Evening genuflects,

While I kneel at the creek`s edge

Watching bluegill rise to tossed petals,

Wanting to write words, right as rain

Smooth as skipped stones—

And release them when the aim

And balance are right.

Fish rising to the rings of forever

As they must have done

To the poor man of Padua`s blessing,

While gathering prayers in the dark.

BEERCANNUS americanus

You can find it

where the pocked faces

of NO HUNTING signs

stare dimly

from the fenceposts

leaning into autumnal shadow,

where a boy with a .22

once skittered

a Schlitz can up

the path,

his only kill

bullet-ridden

and bent,

hardly noticed now

amid the oak leaf litter,

so rich with loam

and the dark power

of moist duff

that mushrooms emerge,

fashioned like ears

pressed to the cool

forest canopy.

Listening closely,

they might hear

a chamber being loaded,

the silence

taking aim.

Pointblank.

Dead center.

SCARECROW`S DREAM

A burlap vision

of fallow stalks

that spear and

stubble the furrows

now rusted

huddled hayricks,

whispering intimations.

Smashed pumpkins

puckered to

cruel air,

even the sky

corncrib dry,

where a seedless

wind snags

like barbed wire

and from the field`s

frayed edge: a 12

gauge blast.

A crow

caws

caws

caws

its wings sweeping

at the sunset

with the scythe of song.

Frost etching

your paned landscape

(boundaried by splitrail

fences)

then a warm handprint

melting it to clarity,

twilight`s kneeling

shadow nuzzles

the cold glass

and reflected back

is a daguerreotype

plate of your face.

Smoke whisps

from a woodburning

cookstove:

slow vapor-breath

of grazing Herefords

curls.

Impaled upon a bent nail:

swatches of denim

sleeve flail

wildly with every

gust: bits of broom

and newsprint are winnowed

to the earth

heaved clods

and while calling

the tassel-haired

young ones home,

his broomstick spine

shivers

right down

to the grain.

32° AND DROPPING

my pockets

empty milkweed pods

wind-ridge eyes

red as sumac...

	CONTENTS	8
	FOREWORD	10
	I. BENEDICTIONS	14
	Benediction	16
	Beercannus americanus	17
	Scarecrow's Dream	18
	32	18
	and Dropping	20
	Winter Prelude	21
	Quiet Cave Poem	22
	Quarry	23
	Sun Dance	24
	Nocturnal Benison	25
	The Gourd Dipper	26
	De Profundis	28
	II. BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HEART PLACE	30
	Saul	32
	Between a Rock and a Heart Place	33
	Compline	35
	Granuloma	36
	The Alchemy of Pain	38
	Dr. Schram's List	41
	Time On Its Side	42
	Poem, Little Tavern	43
	Exeunt	45
	Act of Contrition	47
	I.C.U.	48
	III. HOMING IN	50
	Dowser	52
	Relief Map	53
	Off The Backroads	54
	Search Party	56
	Back Tracking	57
	Love Poem	59
	Broken Sleep	61
	Poem at 2:17 P.M.	63
	Far From Home	64
	The Archtypal Classroom	65
	August Night Qualms	66
	Homing In	68
	NOTES	70