Daniel 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.

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