“Saint Jo”

 

Serve one another!

Sleek, silver travel trailer;

Go out and tow her.

Gary Edward Geraci

Blitz of Beggars

 

Gaze of faith

Gaze on a blitz

Blitz of wisdom

Blitz of seekers

Seekers are finders

Seekers finding love

Love across borders

Love among people 

People who pray

People who sing

Sing to attract 

Sing to praise

Praise God for the day

Praise God for the night 

Night and days theirs

Night a taste of rest

Rest from troubles

Rest in warmth

Warmth is comforting

Warmth living in truth 

Truth they seek

Truth the fruit of the search

Search along an inclined path

Search while fully clothed

Clothed in one’s culture

Clothed in the garments

Garments of the lands

Garments of the traditions

Traditions to know

Traditions to find

Find true happiness

Find the Way

Way of peace

Way of communion

Communion with neighbor

Communion with others

Others who too are searching

Others who too want to heal

Heal all that divides

Heal those who hunger

Hunger and thirst

Hunger for the banquet

Banquet of all banquets

Banquet to feed many

Many are called

Many both rich and beggars

Beggars who come to feast

Beggars who become rich

Rich...

Feast...

Gary Edward Geraci

Implications

 

What if it really is God 

Whom we consume in the small 

white tasteless host? Would it really 

matter how far apart we were 

in place or time? The One and Only, 

God, and God consumed! Would this not 

be a unity unlike any 

other? A unity among 

People, one another, a 

Communion with each other far 

greater than the most lavish, earthly

intercourse ever exchanged or penned or planned?

Gary Edward Geraci

Yaupon Holly Holy

 

Under the tutelage of Fr. Gerard Manley Hopkins

Clumps of crimson-bright berries clustered close;

Red to catch the light, red to glow in sight,

And numbered, numbering gross

Winter feasts for feeding fowl on berry:

First feed, take flight,

Return to gorge. More! Most

Moist in juice, the cherry

Hued globes - glut of fuel - and sweet in shell; then flight - high and airy.

Would we be so rich in moment,

This shared moment potent,

Fed fully like feathered creatures!

This second excluding no one:

Well in health and playful fun,

Or lost in luck with aching heart.

Wealth is ‘now’: ‘now’ a speeding dart,

‘Now’ a young leader, ‘now’ a truth seeker,

‘Now’ calling himself the Son

Of God.  The descent down meant

Rendering also onto Caesar.

Treasure, time, and talent

This eternal minute is a gallant

And noble Teacher,

A giving Teacher, a rich Teacher;

Sharing NOW, a royal Teacher.

Gary Edward Geraci

Single Issue Voter

 

To choose who I’ll love

Or that all lives matter,

The course of the planet

Or who’ll be President,

Haggles over fracking,

The freedom of press gaggles,

Who’s gonna cross the border,

Women’s rights, where I can worship,

Coronavirus, lockdowns, masks -

Are all just wispy phantoms

If you tear me from the womb.

Gary Edward Geraci