Leaves of Water. Father Ralph Wright

      

      leaves of water

      by

      Father Ralph Wright, OSB

      OTHER BOOKS BY

      RALPH WRIGHT

      All the Stars are Snowflakes

      Seamless

      Perhaps God

      Life is Simpler Towards Evening

      Ripples of Stillness

      RALPH WRIGHT, O.S.B.

      leaves of water

      new & selected poems

      Copyright 2011 Father Ralph Wright, OSB, All rights reserved.

      Published in eBook format by Monograph Publishing

      ISBN-13: 978-0-9840-1171-1

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      DEDICATION

      For Anne Porter

      whose ‘altogether different language’

      has reminded me

      that poetry is

      above all

      memorable speech.

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      I would like to thank the Daughters of

      Saint Paul for permission to include the

      poems “Today”, “Ripples of Stillness”,

      “Ground for Joy” and “Infinite Patience”

      which first appeared in a collection of

      my poetry that they published entitled

      Ripples of Stillness.

      I am deeply grateful to William Mathis

      who designed the cover. My thanks also

      to Cumming and Cleda Paton and Joann

      Harvey without whom this project

      would never have got off the ground.

      Words, after speech, reach into the silence.

      T.S.Eliot