Daniel J. Berrigan, 1921-2016
May 10, 2016Daniel J. Berrigan, Jesuit priest, poet and anti-war activist passed away April 30, 2016 in New York City. He was 94. (New York Times)
Berrigan was a longtime friend and supporter of James Humphrey. Humphrey included Berrigan’s poem below in his book, Naked.
CONSOLATION
Listen
if now and then
you hear the dead
muttering like ashes
creaking like empty
rockers on porches
filling you in filling you in
like winds in empty
branches like stars
in wintry trees
so far
so good
you’ve mastered
finally
one foreign tongue
DANIEL BERRIGAN, S.J.