1. renunciation

  • A Renunciation

    From Byrd’s “Songs and Sonnets,” 1588
    IF women could be fair, and yet not fond,
    Or that their love were firm, not fickle still,
    I would not marvel that they make men bond
    By service long to purchase their good-will;
    But when I see how frail those creatures are,
    I muse that men forget themselves so far.

    To mark the choice they make, and...

    Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford

  • Renunciation

    The hours slid fast, as hours will,

    Clutched tight by greedy hands ;

    So faces on two decks look back,

    Bound to opposing lands.


    And so, when all the time had failed,

    Without external sound,

    Each bound the other's crucifix,

    We gave no other bond.


    Sufficient troth that we...

  • Renunciation — is a piercing Virtue —

    Renunciation — is a piercing Virtue —

    The letting go

    A Presence — for an Expectation —

    Not now —

    The putting out of Eyes —

    Just Sunrise —

    Lest Day —

    Day's Great Progenitor —

    Outvie

    Renunciation — is the Choosing

    Against itself —

    Itself to...