His Noble Numbers
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George Klawitters
most recent work and a few poems written fifty years ago. The
themes
focus on nature, memory, and the human condition. Some of
the
poems are evocative of important world events, but most of the
poems
commemorate people and events close to the author. The
forms are
often tight, including several sonnets and a sestina, but meter is
more
often free flowing, carrying the natural rhythms of conversation.
Many of the poems reflect Texas, especially the Texas Hill
Country,
where the author has spent the last seventeen years of his life.
George Klawitter
George Klawitter, CSC, retired in 2012 from St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, where he taught for eighteen years and chaired the Department of English Literature for eight years. He now teaches at Holy Cross College, Notre Dame. He published a life of Brother Gatian (After Holy Cross, Only Notre Dame) and the lives of early religious Brothers (Early Men of Holy Cross). He has also published two books of Holy Cross missionary letters: Adapted to the Lake and Holy Cross in Algeria.
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His Noble Numbers - George Klawitter
Contents
Alan Altimont
Acknowledgements
Other Poetry Books by George Klawitter
To His Book
Backyard Drama
Garcia
Descent
Wonders Will Never Cease
The Rothko Chapel
Trueblood
Years After
Wool Gathering
Final Day
Family Confession
Kill to Shoot
Fingers
Cemeteries
Justin
Professor Angus Mitchell
Autumn Shakespeare
Wisconsin Solo
Differences
Passage
The Trampoline at Midnight
The Swan at Blarney
Texas Fall
Puzzle
At the Delta
Dog Gone
A Flower’s Ruse
Leaving San Angelo
Maternity
Painters
Heritage
The Life of a Professor
Streaks of Sadness
A Time for Answers
In the Boat
Franciscan in the Ashes
November Gift
The Loneliness of the Hunt
For a Favorite Niece
Peace Poem
Monastery Visitor
Think About It
The Soft Spot That Will Not Heal
Autumn
Art Responds to Artist
Carnival Animals
Pseudodoxia Epidemica
Celestine Invicta
Gram
We Release You
Happy Times
The Methodist Way
Office Visit
Pieta
Eggs for Show
You Put in the Commas
A Lesson from the Dolphins
In the Garden
Revolution
Poets for James Merrill
Parade
Portrait
for Alan Altimont
The man whose silent dayes
in harmeles joyes are spent,
whome hopes cannot delude,
nor sorrow discontent,
that man needes neither towers
nor armour for defence,
nor secret vautes to flie
from thunders violence.
Hee onely can behold
with unafrighted eyes
the horrours of the deepe,
and terrours of the Skies.
—Thomas Campion
Acknowledgements
Art Responds to Artist
in Touchstone
Descent
in Visions International
In the Garden
in Touchstone
Kill to Shoot
in Texas Poetry Calendar
Mr. Angus Mitchell
in Sorin Oak Review
The Randy Telephone Man
in Très di-verse-city
Justin
in Borderlands
Dog Gone
in Sorin Oak Review
Passage
in 2010 Texas Poetry Calendar
Carnival Animals
in Texas Carnival Glass Newsletter
Other Poetry Books by George Klawitter
Country Matters
The Colt
Let Orpheus Take Your Hand
The Agony of Words
To His Book
Who with thy leaves shall wipe (at need)
The place, where swelling Piles do breed:
May every Ill, that bites, or smarts,
Perplexe him in his hinder-parts.
—Robert Herrick
Backyard Drama
The neighbors sneer, but she’s defiant,
continues to feed the raccoon nightly,
the possum, and the rabid lonely fox
who show up darkly apologetic, sick for love.
That’s when the moon shimmers everything
in soft, romantic light. No such theater
in full sun when all the birds appear,
the wren and sparrow, cardinal, and jay.
At noon comes her favorite rogue, the one
who stopped an August day to steal her heart—
a road runner, skinny as a twig and mindless
in his dominance of the molting yard.
She didn’t mind the occasional finch he ate,
but one brown afternoon he grabbed a prize,
the only parakeet, and bashed its beady head
on the flat patio rocks, beat it dead.
She ran for her broom, but the rogue-bird
flew its bounty to a neighbor’s eave
to eat in peace and spit green feathers
on the tearful matron down below.
Funny how abuse comes home