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The Row Boat"Had we but world enough, and time..." * A Death in the Family4/03/2005 21:27:02This weekend the Holy Father died, and people know that. It is an amazing thing, the transformation of sacredness. I heard a priest tonight who was not so sad it seemed, who preached the ongoing as boldly as possible... to continue the poet-Pope's work. In such a simple act, dying, the universal act, and in an ordinary, thoroughly modern way, John Paul took us along in the body's dying. At once a normal fellow, at once a spiritual force, two hypostases and one person, and so with us all. The poet Robert Creeley also left us this week, on Wednesday. He was one of the greats of our time, a bridger of people and sensibilities. The simplicity and directness of his work and speech is truly unmatched. He was also a teacher of mine. In class I used to go into a trance, simply writing, writing, everything he said word for word in lecture and discussion, simply for the easy and timbre of it. When Small's Clone first went public, I told him about it. As with everything his students do, he was tremendously supportive. He posted the following poem and picture. They strike me as appropriate. The Ball Room for one and all around the gathering ball, to hold the sacred thread, to hold and wind and pull. Sit in the common term. All hands now move as one. The work continues on. The task is never done. 
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