Not anything I've ever expected! To find a poem of mine smack-dab alongside a poem by Thomas Merton! I read "The Seven Story Mountain" in high school in 1958. I was entranced. Merton was an avowed 'anarchist' as well as a Trappist monk. I imagine that his anarchism appealed to me, at age 17, more than his mysticism.
Not anything I've ever expected! To find a poem of mine smack-dab alongside a poem by Thomas Merton! I read "The Seven Story Mountain" in high school in 1958. I was entranced. Merton was an avowed 'anarchist' as well as a Trappist monk. I imagine that his anarchism appealed to me, at age 17, more than his mysticism.