Gary Edward Geraci

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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black faces
white faces
brown faces
faces of ev-
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Now new; newness, every step!
but see those plodding along,
they seem to plot alone,
with strides short and heavy,
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