HeyJaredPoesophy | Aaron McNally
Essays on living well through literature, philosophy, psychology and religio-spiritual practice.
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September Threnody (opens the original)
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For days, the sky has worn a veil and weptIn consolation for our prayers, which have Been ceaseless. Far below, our roots convulse In ardent pulses of desire, and balkAt Autumn's cool restraint—parental pauseOn all new growth until we first to bed. Praise, as it stands, has taken graveSolemnity with every motion of our hands. The more we work the less seems to get done.And the more we don't get done, the more exhausted We become, stunted and fertile, Feral and aroused. It is within the strait
From Refrain to Second Coming (opens the original)
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Sonnet 18Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date:Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou owest;Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,When in eternal lin
Slowing the Soul (opens the original)
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Unintentionally, I decided to spend this holiday weekend without watching any videos. As I say, there was no governing logic to this decision -- the primary motivation, in fact, was simply that I’m at month’s end on my cell phone plan, and data has become a bit more valuable as a commodity. Staying away from YouTube has been easy enough. In fact, it coincides with an actual intention I had consciously made -- to read and pray far more that I watched or listened. A single man who lives alone, I’v
“A Living Sacrifice” (opens the original)
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I was listening to two men, one a Catholic priest, speaking of George Eliot’s Middlemarch (which I happen to be reading right now). As might be suspected, the priest had a reading of the novel which might be thought to impose Catholicism (or at least Christianity) onto it. Nevertheless, I found the ideas compelling (of course, I’m a Catholic catechumen and so am, also, biased). Here is what he said: [T]hese small decisions you make about your character do matter—not least because your soul and c
These Parts of Me (opens the original)
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These parts of me which, gone to seed,on spirit's wings, star-like, now floatthroughout the world—how lightand immaterial they seem,traversing aimlessly despitethe vast desire contained in them.One day a few of them might stem,should they find nutriment for might,some just-so-sunny place where rainmight wet the throat to offer voiceto words which thought they had no choicebut to dissolve remembered pain.But here they yet reside, in different form—anew, transformed from simple orbinto new limbs w
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