Day Nineteen Leafy Glen

October 21, 2010

Nineteen 10/19/10

Credit the Sorbonne for saints galore,

more by my rough count than pinhead

per quem omnia facta sunt and adore

Divinity near Georgian Bay, de Brébeuf dead,

a mutilated end to la cours sacreé,

ever upwards since Jogues in 1642 led

A sortie into Iroquois territory by way

of Albany, tomahawked in October.

Who went back to Paris did not stay

But asked to return: Garnier, Lalemont,

Daniel, the priests and Goupil, de la Lande,

la vie comme la bois, sauvage et sainte.