I thought now that I am old you would not come to dwell in my imagination. Before you brought dreamtime, escape renewal of the real and words to give it shape.
I did not think you would come like this – so human and so mortal and so male so absolutely on a day in time to rock my reason cause thought and speech to quail; already memory a pale moonlight version of yourself that I must try to think my way around, wonder at, be embarrassed by.
Kathleen McPhilemy Kathleen McPhilemy’s most recent collection is The Lion in the Forest (Katabasis 2004). the cruel flaunting of wealth, in the eyes of the despairing homeless, on programmes such as Relocation, Relocation We should not require clergy to be social workers but priests; they were ordained to preach the truest good news. Our whole situation is not tragic but, on the contrary, exploding with a covert optimism we seem to be blind to. This news is nowhere more evident than among the hundreds of secular and religious sustainable communities listed in my World Out of Control. But when do clergy preach about such places where young people have the most loving contexts in which to grow up and whose teaching is found in Acts 2 and 1 Cor 12:25?
Kathleen McPhilemy's most recent collection is The Lion in the Forest (Katabasis 2004).