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    Irreverent Litanies: Poems
    Irreverent Litanies: Poems
    Irreverent Litanies: Poems
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    Irreverent Litanies: Poems

    By Zack Rogow

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    In Zack Rogow's new poetry collection Irreverent Litanies, the poet grapples with religion and spirituality from the viewpoint of someone who grew up in a militantly atheist home. He surprises himself by sometimes finding the wisdom and beauty in a meditative perspective. With laugh-out-loud humor and deep heart, these poems offer new perspectives on contemporary life, from cloning Mozart to traffic bottlenecks in Silicon Valley to the cycles of birth and death.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRegal House Publishing
    Release dateMar 8, 2019
    ISBN9781947548640
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      Irreverent Litanies - Zack Rogow

      Acknowledgments

      Irreverent Litanies

      Zack Rogow

      Regal House Publishing

      Copyright © 2019 by Zack Rogow. All rights reserved.

      Published by

      Regal House Publishing, LLC

      Raleigh, NC 27612

      All rights reserved

      ISBN -13 (paperback): 978-1-947548-63-3

      ISBN -13 (epub): 978-1-947548-64-0

      ISBN -13 (Mobi): 9781947548770

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2019930302

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      Interior and cover design by Lafayette & Greene

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      Front cover artwork Step Out of Line II © by Marie Bourget.

      Back cover author drawing by Heidi Noriko.

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      Dedication

      To my son Gabriel, whose questions

      always make me question my ideas

      The Big Questions Are Making a Comeback

      Spiritually Challenged

      Ten days sitting Zen and not one word

      slipped past her lips.

      My friend can only say, Amazing! I just wonder

      why she wanted to bury all those thoughts.

      With a language faster than words

      the born-agains in the dorm room next to mine

      woke me at dawn with glossolalia.

      I thought, They really need to get laid.

      Visiting Chartres, the sculpture

      on the cathedral façade

      breathes, the stained glass is like candies

      of light. But the arches only stretch the emptiness.

      Faith seems like an excuse

      for a potluck, or for not learning how to dance.

      Isn’t religion like the United Nations?

      Agree on the principles, then ignore them.

      The saints on their Corinthian columns,

      in the Sinai and Sahara,

      the lotused bodhisattvas—

      their eyes don’t look down from my walls.

      But when a fist of cells

      roots into Deena’s womb

      and the chemo shaves her black tresses,

      I think about her warm cackle;

      her Isabelle and Harry,

      just eleven and four;

      and her work calls, all for others,

      and I hear myself say, Please, God…

      Credo

      I believe that gravity is a temporary condition

      I

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