Ten Thousand and Counting

Ten thousand processed through Liverpool streets,

A Holy Body, Christ, IS visible. 

Professing, confessing their faith in One

Held high - a spirit of penance and meets;

To follow Him now is a miracle,

The crucified Son - our salvation won.

What the reformers tried to discourage,

Our Eucharistic spirit made possible.

With passing of time, the Spirit to run,

To gather together: Host entourage.

Come, come!

-Gary Edward Geraci

“To Every Human Being Whom Ever Lived Or Will Live Even If For Only A Few Seconds”

black faces

white faces

brown faces

faces of ev-

‘ry color

look magnif-

‘icent in 

flowing white

robes of Heav’n

where my Love

for him or

her (or her

or her) is

no longer

a scandal

or a sin

-Gary Edward Geraci

Norma (Shadorma)

You stayed home 

While the others played;

Watchful eye

While dad strayed.

But the day you turned eighteen,

Free, you flew away!

-Gary Edward Geraci

Mattress Sale

Perma-marker posts for mattresses, pointed 

Posts pushed into the ground, waving yard 

Signs, swaying in the wind, election season,

“Forty Dollars Down!!” Her boss to vote... 

Terrified she’ll lose the job she recently won if 

She doesn’t make sales, a legal, lawful 

Immigrant, single parent of one, awful -

The landlord would wrest away her rental...

/

Less than one mile from here, a homeless man, 

A veteran, ran a war in Iran, a man 

Who stays in the woods; with dirty, infested

Bedding he rests his head, though this night,

Before One, a candle resting in red glass, 

He prays to the Lamb with ‘no place to lay His head.’

/

-Gary Edward Geraci

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Jesus replied, "Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." Luke 9:58

Blown Away

i can’t make this veil i see into something other than a veil

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i don’t jump up and down either upon learning about what’s really under it

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but i’m blown away in awe none-the-less

Gary Edward Geraci