Holy Men and Women
While women in my family
gather in a coffee house in Stromsburg, Nebraska
to fete my nephew’s wife with pink
packages filled with pacifiers and Pampers,
welcoming the newest girl in the family,
unborn,
I pray the psalms
with males, monks, most of them old,
living in quiet solitude,
south of Ava, Missouri,
surrounded by brothers most of their lives,
no baby girls in sight,
praying fervently for young men,
a new monk or two,
those who will not serve,
rejecting a new birth.
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