Last Visit.--in memory of Denise Levertov Denise Levertov (October 24 1923–December 20 1997) was a British-born American poet. Early life & influences Denise Levertov was born in Ilford, Essex, England. Her mother, Beatrice Spooner-Jones Levertoff was Welsh. , 1923-1997 Like your poems the high front yard faces a lake's inlet, Purple, pink, orange and yellow day lilies punctuate steep steps to your front door where lamb's ear. allium, ivy and clematis cover the earth beneath fig and pear. Cloistered with fuschia. fern, spirea and impatiens, you scan the flowers talk of saint Romero, how he died preaching grammar of justice, syntax of mutual aid. At table we share olivetta bread, peaches, cherries and a view of clouds Mt. Rainier real as the line we had to break at Nevada's nuclear site to restructure the sentence our lives are making. Now I see your obituary. your death covered with words I wish were your new poem, another glimpse of the unseen: an energy field more intense than war. MURRAY BODO BODO Bodensee-Oberschwaben Verkehrsverbund mbH (German) is a Franciscan friar friar [Lat. frater=brother], member of certain Roman Catholic religious orders, notably, the Dominicans, Franciscans, Carmelites, and Augustinians. Although a general form of address in the New Testament, since the 13th cent. , author, and writer in residence at Thomas More College Thomas More College may refer to: Australia
Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. . Phrases in italics are from Denise Levertov's poem "Making Peace." |
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