I
was talking with Thomas Merton,
well,
actually, I was talking and he
was
listening, that period of silence
each
day those Trappists do,
you
know. Silence forces you
to
listen. So we talked, or rather
I
talked, he never said a word
but
he spoke
of
everything,
like
a child,
he
was a child, you know,
once.
Related: My post this week at Tweetspeak Poetry on Thomas Merton's In the Dark Before Dawn.
Photo of Thomas Merton via the Thomas Merton Society of Canada.
Lovely, Glenn. I just went to a Thomas Merton Retreat Day last week - I've read very little of his work (hope to fix that) but was blessed by the opportunity to be with two men I deeply admire who helped me gain a new appreciation for Merton. Did you see my Merton poem this week? My friends said he would be 100 this year.
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