Friday, December 13, 2013

Brother Louis's Valentine

Emily’s envelopes remind
me I once knew a monk
the monastery’s cook
who’d tear the labels from
bean and tomato cans
to pencil on the backs of
his jokes and visions
he’d tack to the kitchen wall
with scraps of prayers
it is his doing it I recall
more than what he wrote
out of the silence
of his vow not to waste
and not to want

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