First Things, Chronicles
First Things has two new poems of mine, and two weeks ago Chronicles published ten epigrams under the title Multum in Parvo, which I learned here. Yeah, my Latin really is that bad. Chronicles asked me to update my author bio for their obiter dicta. I said "Timothy Murphy has now published 49 poems at Chronicles since 1996, but who's counting?"
One of the First Things poems is a Memorial Day poem for a dead young soldier down the road. It wasn't very well received at The Deep End, and what merit it has is largely due to my quoting the Sullivan/Zohar translation of Psalm 27, one of King David's earliest masterpieces, the theme for the pastor's homily. I hope the poem will give some comfort to military families.
3000 years from now I'd like someone to refer to one of Tim Murphy's earliest masterpieces, but I don't think that's likely.
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