And the Risen Bread: Selected Poems, 1957-1997 by Daniel Berrigan

Author:Daniel Berrigan [Berrigan, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: American, PBCAE, Poetry
ISBN: 9780823218226
Google: qxh86s9UrBEC
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 1998-08-14T23:00:00+00:00

In blinding Minnesota winter sun

one of the older brothers

would hoist a kid up, pick-a-back, and run.

I was 3 or 4; John trundled me round the yard

ducked suddenly into a dark wood shed

striking me blind. Against my face

some rough pelted thing swayed frozen.

Recovering sight

screamed, screamed like a banshee, a child

gone mad for terror;

a frozen timber wolf's death-head

hung by a thong from the rafters, eyes open

bloody mouth

The stuff of nightmares or of dental chairs.

In Danbury Clinic

I urge the wary inmates; open wide now; a superannuated

paraclete, all in white

for the liturgy; needles and drills

needles and drills. Domestic policy, we juice

America's pain to sleep

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