Daily Signet

We raise with reddened hands our sacrifices
Beseeching sameness, pittances
Fearing the glory of the dragon
Whose lashing tail sends our hoarded structures flying,
Whose blazing breath lays waste our hovel, our crumbs
In preparation for the sacred fecund darkness
From which will spring unknown newness.

Donna Piper Leichtling

On This Day…

St. Agatho: husband, businessman, monk and 79th pope, 7C

Robinson Jeffers born 1887 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Poet whose poetry celebrated life on the west coast of California. Works: Stones of the Sur, The Wild God of the World. Died, 1962. Quotes: “The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.” “I have heard the summer dust crying to be born.” “One existence, one music, one organism, one life, one God: star-fire and rock – strength, the sea’s cold flow and man’s dark soul.”

Philip Levine born 1928 in Detroit, Michigan: poet and recipient of a Pulitzer Prize who wrote about working class life in Detroit.  Works: What Work Is, The Simple Truth, Not This Pig. Quotes: “I write what’s given me to write.” “I’m saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.” “I was lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.”