The Monk

for Evan Welcher

The Monk

for Evan Welcher

If you had another life to live, you would be
a monk. A secretly Protestant monk, finally
able to embrace the silence that, until this 
second life, has been a mere product of your 
inner-landscape. “I have a rich interior life,” 
you tell me about yourself and “she has a rich 
interior life,” you say about our daughter, 
Hildegaard, who sometimes pauses while raking 
her fingers through the dirt to look up at the sky as 
though she is finishing a conversation with the birds, 
or maybe with Gabriel, who I like to think enjoys 
talking to children because they are the ones who
believe, and who understand what really matters. 

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