
Author Matthew B. Rose


To Medusa Gorgon, my Gorgon I gaze on that sweetest face. Stone, my own face turns. O Medusa, dear, Let…

To Uncle Clive “At my first coming into the world I had been (implicitly) warned never to trust a Papist,…

The Most Humble Man on Earth I’m the most humble man on earth. Of all men stripped of noble birth…

The Dark Night of the Soul (How does my love look when she sleeps?) How does my love look when…

Fourteenth Station Good Friday I am here, watching the hole, Filled with a rock and still There is danger, stupid…

Thirteenth Station Good Friday He’s dead? Already? I was sure he would remain, A living human stain, Hanging up there,…

Twelfth Station Good Friday Father, forgive them, they know not what they do. I’m not saying they aren’t culpable, But…

Eleventh Station Good Friday “My friends, you are my closest ones. You alone I can trust. You are my closest…

Tenth Station Good Friday My pretty bird, sing for me. My, what beautiful feathers, What beautiful fetters. I’ll take them…