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Daniel Fitzpatrick is the author of several books, including the poetry collection Yonder in the Sun and the novel First Make Mad (forthcoming). His book Restoring the Lord’s Day is out now from Sophia Institute Press. He edits Joie de Vivre: a Journal of Art, Culture, and Letters for South Louisiana, and he teaches at Jesuit High School in New Orleans, where he lives with his wife and four children.

Catharsis

The red and yellow wrecker jerks its chrome snout aside as we mount the final rise, hooks a blue sedan in the reedy ditch, pulls it from…

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Colloquy

Come now, clean and melancholy dove. Quit the unsung water of their anguish. Speak low, and let the rumored beats above upbraid the bitter cities which languish…

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Revery

And when at last the least light sings its sleep and mutes itself against the whirling deep where stars fold up in friezes from the dark like…

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