Worlds Within Worlds: A Father’S Poems and Prayers

By James P. MacGuire

In Worlds Within Worlds: A Fathers Poems and Prayers, James P. MacGuires poems celebrate the joys and challenges of love, marriage, fatherhood, children, work, loss, sorrow, doubt, and ultimately, resilient faith. With settings in New York, the Long Island shore, New England, Florida, Colorado, and Ireland, MacGuires poetry is alive with the seen and the unseen, the natural and the supernatural, quotidian realities, and sublimely spiritual illuminations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Feb 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9781546222743

James P. MacGuire

James P. MacGuire was educated at Johns Hopkins and Cambridge and has worked for major media companies such as Time Inc., Macmillan, The Health Network and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He is the author or co-author of ten books, including Dusk on Lake Tanganyika and Other Poems, and his poetry and other writing has been published in many national publications, including Southern Review, America, Ironwood, St. Austins Review and Kansas Quarterly. James MacGuire lives in New York and is the father of two beloved sons, Pierce and Rhoads..

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Contents

i. Householding

Spring

Honeymoon

Walking In To See Young Pierce After A Bad Day

Pierce in Newport 4th of July

Coming Back from Church

Joan Elser’s Memorial Service at the Radnor Hunt

Hillsdale

Messenger

Allegash Memory

Personae

And Their Fear Turned to Awe…

Rhoads at the Brook

End of Another Work Day

Watching the Fireworks on Atlantic Beach

Wondering

Two Visitors

Seaweed in Bloom

The Spring Swans

Lines to Lanie on Valentine’s Day

1999—Remembering 1990

Tidings of Discomfort

ii. Worlds Within Worlds

The Great Wall

Last Day in Beijing

The Attacks in Mumbai

Two Boys

Agnostic in Advent

The O Antiphons of Advent at Portsmouth Abbey: Christmas Eve

New Year’s Comes to New York

St. Matthew’s Gospel

Winter Plea

Meditation on the Market’s Fall

Mother Coleman

Valentine to Michelle

Recession: The Ides of February

Late February

March Blizzard

The Jewish Wisdom

At Fairchild Gardens 2009

Captiva

Worlds Within Worlds

The Last Fire

The Sociopath’s Soliloquy

The Swamp at Rossville, Tennessee

St. Seraphim of Sarov the Transfigured

Expressing

Breakdown

The World Warming Up

Tibetan Mothers: Tibetan Babies

The Pond at Portsmouth

Connemara

Cuisle, Glen, Donegal

Birdsongs

The Trees on the Isle of Wight

Total

Season’s Turn

Narragansett Matins

The First Run of Christmas

The Last Gift of Christmas

Skiing Together

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following publications where some of these poems first appeared:

Portsmouth Review (The O Antiphons of Advent at Portsmouth Abbey: Christmas Eve, The Jewish Wisdom, Narragansett Matins)

Saint Austin’s Review (Worlds Within Worlds)

The Raven (Saint Seraphim of Sarov the Transfigured)

Cover: Crooked Creek by Debbie Drake, from the collection of Robert E. Diemar III

For Pierce and Rhoads

i. Householding

Spring

Lanie’s long brown hair surrounds her peaceful face

Crowned by her curiously upturned sleeping smile.

She reaches out to hold me as soft spring air

Breathes through the window with sounds