Glebewise

I wrote a poem in my early 30s which I entitled Glebewise. At the time I was churched as a Lutheran and schooled in Catholicism.  The imagery of the poem provides a layering of farm and village as well as community and family, but definitely about the context of our lives, literature, and symbolism.  The poem is in multiple parts and has recently been edited.  Here is an outline of this multi-part poem:

Glebewise

Part I. The Slough
Part II. Aqua pura
Part III. The Gardener
Part IV. A Reservoir
Part V. The Attic
Part VI. The Young exploding spring
Part VII. Flowering heads
Part VIII. The Glebe