Minor, obscure, American Catholic poet and a well loved husband.
                Vivacious young believer
Glowing in her youth 
Takes a veil, vow, and habit
And now loves us kindly too.
                
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                ‘Word of Faith' ladies come marching down the Mississippi streets
Singing gospel tunes and waving large placards of babies born
Beautiful; beautiful babies of all colors and conditions; 
Boys and girls, healthy and sick; big bold words defending a right to life.
                
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                Your Love bathes us in sun.
One strange Valentine's Day.
Pale blue dot; only one.
                
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                Hard-shelled like hard shellack, a hardened short 
Shackle so loosely but firmly surrounding 
This my heart of stone. If I should bemoan 
I don't feel love, if I should mourn the lack of
                
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                Felt a certain fullness of fallenness as a boy, 
Short of falsenesses to be multiplied to destroy.
Forceful was the inclination to be impulsive,
                
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