by Johanna Caton
not a new meditation mantra a select self-help system a Real Results! regimen or any other riveting endeavour at rind-repair has hands supple as flame eyes relentless as mirrors footsteps inexorable as time irrevocable as paradise
Johanna Caton, O.S.B., is a Benedictine nun of Minster Abbey in England. Originally from Virginia, she lived in the U.S. until adulthood, when her monastic vocation took her to Britain. Her poems have appeared in both online and print publications, including The Christian Century, The Windhover, A Time of Singing, Amethyst Review, The Ekphrastic Review and the Catholic Poetry Room webpage at integratedcatholiclife.org. Some of her poems can be found at www.integratedcatholiclife.org/?s=johanna+caton