Pilgrimages: Poems
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Through metered poetry and a focus on sound and image, Pilgrimages traces a journey to God and self-knowledge via the side streets, stumbles, and uncertainties of the human experience. The poems in this volume explore the difficulties and burdens of life, softened by the solace of faith. Despite moments of desperation and failure, there is endless hope and beauty found in divine love.
Andrew J. Calis
Andrew J. Calis holds a PhD in English from the Catholic University of America and teaches at a Catholic preparatory school in Maryland. He has published in Dappled Things, Presence, America, and elsewhere and lives outside of Baltimore with his wife and four children.
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Pilgrimages - Andrew J. Calis
Pilgrimages
Poems
Andrew J. Calis
Pilgrimages
Poems
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Andrew J. Calis. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers,
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To my dad who loves us more than he could say, and to my mom who is a living saint.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,Prone to leave the God I love;Here’s my heart, O, take and seal it,Seal it for Thy courts above.
—Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Table of Contents
Title Page
Acknowledgements
I To God and to the Cloud’s Edge
In Adoration: Three Poems
II. Reformed
III. The Size and Shape
Where can I like Jonah go?
You Are
The Black Hole Can Only Devour So Much
On the Dead Who Are Promised to Rise
You Are
God Seen, Saint of the Unknown
A Lesson in Grace
Prayers for Shaped Nature
You Are
God Who Makes Life and Made Them Both
In Adoration: April 2019
II To the Memories of My Father
Walls: A Photograph
Jerusalem, Heart
The Tattoo You Never Got
III To The Shattered City
Breaking up a fight at school
Five Vultures Sitting on a Telephone Pole in the Rain
I. The Splash of Rain Came First
II. In baptism birth
III. A walk home
His song, a second loss
Homeless for the First Time: An Interview
Circulatory Systems: D.C.
The Small
women speaking of lenses / on the metro
Warmer than Wine
In Blinding Light
I. In NoMa
II. In Blinding Light
Whispered, Unheard
Class
Black Rot
IV To The Shattered Self
In Mourning
Humility and Power
What I Shouldn’t Say
I. Closed-Throated
II. What I Shouldn’t Say
At Depths Beyond
Losing Sleep
Need
Death Grows Unkept Like Wild Ivy
The Fall: Another Dream about Dying
Myopic
Rocking the Baby at Sunset and Dreaming of Sleep
Broken Sleep
The Weight of Fire
The Length of Winter
A Wedding and a Mote of Dust
I. At the Reception
II. At the Birth
III. At the Cocktail Hour
IV. Before