The Loom of the Light

By Donald J. Young

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 3, 2003
• ISBN: 9781469108278

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Copyright © 2003 by Donald J. Young.

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Contents

Other works by Donald J. Young:

FROM THE SHORE OF THE UNKNOWN

On Dreams

Advice

Three Famous Men

The War

On the Dead

Notes

Arriving at the Front

In the Minefield

A Letter from His Father

The Military Cemetery

FROM FAMILY TALES

The Dowry Chest

Alain and His Mother

Mother’s Funeral

FROM ILLUMINATION

Notes

The Aztec Priest’s Ritual

Joan at Orléans

Luther’s Battle with the Pope

Elizabeth and the Two Mary’s

Caravaggio’s Virgin and Christ

Dorothy and William Wordsworth at Grasmere

Dickens and the Children of London

Whitman and the Dying Soldier

O’Keefe in Taos

On Lorca’s New Biography

FROM REFLECTIONS

Notes

The Song of the Violin

The Dancer

For César Vallejo (1895-1938)

The Soldier and the Citizen

In the Stadium in Afghanistan (2001)

The Moviemakers

The Operation

The Novice and the Vintage Poet

For a Young Woman

The Lover’s Song

Whenever I Think of Death

Old People and the Sea

FOR VIVIANE

For all her love and support

According to my friend, Michael Sarratt, a former U.S. Navy seaman, the loom of the light is a seafarer’s phrase which refers to the sky glow of a distant lighthouse not quite rising above the horizon. It is often the mariner’s first indicator of an approaching landfall dimly perceived in the dark night at sea. It is both an assurance and a warning: safe harbor is near; beware the rocky headlands.

I think when we are guided by our imagination (or the moon), we may perceive, like the seafarer, the loom of the light, which can lead us safely past the dangerous shores, to our destined harbor.

Other works by Donald J. Young:

NOVELS:

The Reunion (New International Library, 1961)

The Lion’s Share, A Story of the Battle of the Bulge

(Avranches Press, 1998, Fourth Edition)

NOVELLAS

The Ascending Star (Creative Arts Book Company, Berkeley,

CA, 1999)

The Listening Man (Xlibris Corporation,