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Hi, Steve--I'm a sucker for nuns in the clouds myself, and what an amazing turn yours take at the end of your _Stand_ poem, the Vietnamese title of which I'm afraid of misrendering (which is why I keep failing to mention it!). How about posting it, title and all? And that goes for you too, Matthew Francis, if you'd oblige us? (Too bad you can't give us the painting as well, but did you remember the painter's name, btw?) As for Catherine's "miracles," I don't really know of any (do you, Matthew--or Catherine Daly?). She was more of a mystic and teacher, like Julian of Norwich, and wrote (or rather dictated, as she was unlettered herself, I believe) a wonderful book called the _Dialogos_. And she a martyr--of the famous homonymous "catherine wheel," after which the fireworks are named--and with which Matthew makes such a chilling conclusion to his poem. Assuming that it was the same St. Catherine (of Siena) whom I'm remembering, although I could have conflated a couple of them and can't check my _Golden Legend_ here. Anyway, Erminia's gotten us off to a nice start, so if you two guys post your _Stand_ poems (or other good works of that sort), I'll chip in with my (old) prose poem "The First Hermit" (about Paul and Anthony in the desert), the only one from a whole sequence I wrote during the mid-1970s that was worth keeping (I think--and hope and pray). Candice At 05:53 PM 8/8/00 +1000, you wrote: >Candice, no inference was ever taken, guess I'm a sucker for saints >and saintliness anyhow and your St Catherine sounds like an >especially good one. Were her miracles in any way of the order of >Simon Templar? >Steve > > >At 12:04 PM -0400 07/8/2000, [log in to unmask] wrote: >>Oh lord, pardon my clouded meaning! Very sorry to have implied >>otherwise, Steve, when all I meant by my own idiosyncratic Catherine- >>bent was a ref. to being a meadevilist--Candice >> >> >>At 09:24 PM 8/7/00 +1000, you wrote: >>>Thanks Candice for the notice, but my poem was kind of about a saint, >>>too, though not a Christian saint. >>>But surely the most relevant saint to our times would be the original >>>Simon Templar. >>> >>>Steve KK > >-- > > > > > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%