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| Phonics 1 for Young Catholics |
maybe not when he writes in Italian
but when he says to Chicago and New York
“I have no fear I will continue to speak out loudly
promoting dialogue and multilateral relationships
among the states to look for just solutions to problems"
even line breaks do not help.
There is no meter, no music,
no molecules of pleasure
just temptation to take
bread and wine
from churches
cake and champagne
from tiny yachts.
Jesus rhymes with GPS,
but Christ,
that is hard
to slide into a rebuke.
Still, when on the papal plane
to Istanbul and Beirut
flying above stolen paradise
above lake shores sacrificed
Leo says
Too many people are suffering
Too many people are suffering
I do believe he
sees us.
Michele Worthington lives enclosed in urban sprawl in Tucson but escapes to hike the Sonoran desert often and the Adirondacks every summer. Her photography and words have appeared in several online journals and in print in Sandcutters, Anomaly Poetry, and Nature of our Times anthology. She has been a finalist for Arizona Matsuri, Tucson Haiku Hike and Tucson Festival of Books literary awards.
