For Edmund Joseph Berrigan
Lovely tones of mist sweep
off the channels of England
and the Irish sea ring
with the strength of a home,
from where you are and from where
you come a heritage
of an older, more final poetry
fills the breath of a new age
Edmund Joseph Berrigan
born today across the cool Atlantic
here in America another sea . . .
from this you have grown
and so will he
