Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking: Poems
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In Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking, Jeanne Murray Walker invites the reader to join her on a journey told in 58 colloquial sonnets, beginning in the slangy streets of New York and ending in the holiness of silence and praise. Stops on the journey include reflections on death and grief, but also praise for a migrating butterfly, a knock on the door, the astonishing ocean. This book is designed to be used as a devotional and read slowly; to be both a book of poetry and a spiritual companion.
Jeanne Murray Walker
Jeanne Murray Walker was born in a village of 900 people in northern Minnesota. She was first published by The Atlantic Monthly at age 19. Today she’s the prize-winning author of nine books of poetry. Jeanne serves as a Mentor in the Seattle Pacific University low residency MFA Program and travels widely to give readings and workshops.
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Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking - Jeanne Murray Walker
PILGRIM,
You Find the Path By Walking
PILGRIM,
You Find the Path By Walking
JEANNE MURRAY WALKER
POEMS
2019 First Printing
Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking: Poems
Copyright © 2019 by Jeanne Murray Walker
ISBN 978-1-64060-008-9
The Paraclete Press name and logo (dove on cross) are trademarks of Paraclete Press, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Walker, Jeanne Murray, author.
Title: Pilgrim, you find the path by walking : poems / Jeanne Murray Walker.
Description: Brewster, MA : Paraclete Press, Inc., 2019. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019002144 | ISBN 9781640600089 (tradepaper)
Subjects: LCSH: Pilgrims and pilgrimages—Poetry. | Sonnets, American. | Devotional poetry.
Classification: LCC PS3573.A425336 A6 2019 | DDC 811/.54—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019002144
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Published by Paraclete Press
Brewster, Massachusetts
www.paracletepress.com
Printed in the United States of America
FOR
Sophia, Adalyn, Lachlan, and Margaret,
who teach me new ways to find the path forward
The moon and sun are travelers through eternity.
Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life
on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse,
each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
—MATSUO BASHŌ
Paraclete Poetry Series Editor
Mark S. Burrows
CONTENTS
PREFACE: My Pilgrimage with the Sonnet
INTRODUCTION: A Map of the Pilgrimage
The Sonnets
I
IN THE BEGINNING
SOPHIE LEARNS TO PRINT SOPHIA
THE VIOLINIST
MENDELSSOHN FINDS THE ST. MATTHEW PASSION
THE MUSIC BEFORE THE MUSIC
REMBRANDT: LATE SELF PORTRAIT
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM: LEARNING TO SEE
SONG OF THE STREET
ROCK
THE PATH FORWARD
II
FOREBODING
BREAKING THE BLUE BOWL
THE KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR DISGUISED AS A SONNET
BAKER
SO YOU’RE LOSING YOUR MEMORY?
SELF-EXAMINATION
TO THE CARDINAL WATCHING ME SHOWER
FINCH
THE CREATION
AFTER THE BUTTERFLY COMPLETES THE FIRST LEG OF HER THOUSAND-MILE MIGRATION
POINSETTIA
III
WHILE HIKING WITHOUT PEN AND PAPER, I MAKE MENTAL NOTES
DEATH BE NOT PROUD
AT 10,000 FEET
REUNION
AFTER THE DEATHBED: 14 LINES SEPARATED AND WANDERING
BURYING MY MOTHER
GRIEF
HER CRY
PRAYING FOR THE DEAD
COMPLAINT: ONCE MORE ABOUT DEATH
THE VOICE
ROAD TO EMMAUS
WORKING TO SAVE YOURSELF
THE LECTURE
RUMMAGING THROUGH LANGUAGE TO FIND A SONNET
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
WHAT WAS I THINKING?
REVERSAL
NOTES TO YOURSELF
IV
AT THE OCEAN
THE PROBLEM WITH SILENCE
PHILADELPHIA: WALKING TO WORK ON THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING
SILENCE
RUAH
THE SOUL LONGS FOR HOME
STUDY: HOW THE LEAF FALLS
EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK YOU SEE LILACS
ATTEMPT
BORDER CROSSING
THE HAUNTING
NIGHTMARE
THE COBBLER
SHOES
FAREWELL
Acknowledgments
PREFACE
My Pilgrimage With The Sonnet
Over the last decade I have felt troubled by the flatness of much contemporary American poetry, my own included. When you get tired of your own voice, as one of my teachers used to say, go back to the old masters. Their strategies