Visiting St. Francis

April 27, 2008

by Margarita Engle

In Assisi
my father the artist
explained perspective,
form, and pigment,

but I was unable
to see anything beyond
the man in a winglike robe
speaking to birds

so calmly
that they understood
the wolves
must listen too.

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