{"id":2300,"date":"2017-04-27T00:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T04:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:02","slug":"april-27-saying-goodbye-to-your-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/04\/27\/april-27-saying-goodbye-to-your-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"April 27 &#8211; Saying goodbye to your brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 27 \u00a0 Kevin Embach, sj and Denise Levertov<\/p>\n<p>A Detroit native, now studying theology in Boston, came home this week to bury his brother who died of an illness that lingered for decades. \u00a0We will gather for Daniel this morning in Dearborn. \u00a0When Kevin came to town, he stayed in our house as he often does. \u00a0 An hour ago he and I paused as we both entered our days. \u00a0It must have been that Kevin and his brother were on my mind when I woke that I finally opened Denise Levertov\u2019s last book, <u>The Great Unknowing: Last Poems<\/u>. \u00a0Readers of the Work Day\/Hard Time list have, I suspect, gotten used to her manner long since in this blog.<\/p>\n<p>I have trouble opening a new poem because so much of her work already means so much to me. \u00a0 After months of nodding to the still unopened\u00a0<u> The Great Unknowing<\/u>, this morning I found another wonder on the first page. \u201cFrom Below\u201d takes me into a place, and surprises me on this day when my friend takes leave of his brother. \u00a0 It is deeply refreshing for my spirit to meet wonder once again at the hand of this poet.<\/p>\n<p>Best to read with pauses.<\/p>\n<p>Have a blest Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0\u201cFrom Below\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I move among the ankles<br \/>\nof forest Elders, tread<br \/>\ntheir moist rugs of moss,<br \/>\nduff of their soft brown carpets.<br \/>\nFar above, their arms are held<br \/>\nopen wide to each other, or waving<\/p>\n<p>what they know, what<br \/>\nperplexities and wisdoms they exchange,<br \/>\nunknown to me as were the thoughts<br \/>\nof grownups when in infancy I wandered<br \/>\ninto a roofed clearing amidst<br \/>\nhuman feet and legs and the massive<br \/>\ncarved legs of the table,<\/p>\n<p>the minds of people, the minds of trees<br \/>\nequally remote, my attention then<br \/>\nfilled with sensations, my attention now<br \/>\ncaught by leaf and bark at eye level<br \/>\nand by thoughts of my own, but sometimes<br \/>\ndrawn to upgazing-up and up: to wonder<br \/>\nabout what rises so far above me into the light.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org\/2007\/03\/thursday-poem-from-below.html\">http:\/\/www.beyondthefieldsweknow.org\/2007\/03\/thursday-poem-from-below.html<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/05\/Denise-Levertov1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2301\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/05\/Denise-Levertov1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/05\/Denise-Levertov2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2302\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/05\/Denise-Levertov2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Denise Levertov<br \/>\nb. October 1923 \u00a0d. December 1997<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 27 \u00a0 Kevin Embach, sj and Denise Levertov A Detroit native, now studying theology in Boston, came home this week to bury his brother who died of an illness that lingered for decades. \u00a0We will gather for Daniel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/04\/27\/april-27-saying-goodbye-to-your-brother\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}