The Center Post - Autumn 2006

A Poem from Dan Berrigan

It came with this note, after we congratulated him for his 85th birthday: “I have the gentlest greenest memories of Rowe and its staff, irreplaceable friends. You brighten Stygian says for so many. Love and gratitude to you and yours – Dan”

Do You Seek Miracles?

Listen – go
draw water, hew wood,
break stones –
how miraculous!

 Listen; blessed is the one
who walks the earth 5 years, 50 years, 80 years
and deceives no one
and curses no one
and kills no one.

On such a one
the angels whisper in wonder;
behold the irresistible power
of natural powers –
of height, of joy, of soul, of non belittling!

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