here and there this and that

facebanging newly opened rose
deep convicted luminous
echoing color
petals brown loam
green blackening sepals leaflitter
dried fruits wingsown gutfermented
earthnectar dispersing shimmering sungrains
ephemeraternal beauty
tinkling symphony in roomsoul
justice came near
stay my love

catholic worker house at sunrise
(mary moylan returned from the underground in 1979, with the help of viva house, which, since 1968, shares love and community in sowebo from 26 south mount street)

bringing up

in the crackle of burning paper
lost prayers on asphalt
smoke rising into seas unknowable
your answer god
god is war

frederick road at sunrise
(in 1968 daniel berrigan, phillip berrigan, david darst, john hogan, tom lewis, marjorie melville, thomas melville, george mische, and mary moylan seized draft records from a draft office at the catonsville knights of columbus building and burned them in the parking lot)