{"id":9846,"date":"2021-02-17T20:23:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T00:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.franciscansusa.dev\/franciscansusa.org\/?p=9443"},"modified":"2021-03-01T03:04:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T03:04:35","slug":"no-joke-brother-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/no-joke-brother-bob\/","title":{"rendered":"No Joke, Brother Bob"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This poem was orgianlly written and read as tribute to Brother Bob Baxter OFM Conv. at his funeral in 2018. It serves as a reminder of the importance and impact we can have on one another through interfaith relationships and dialogue.<\/p>\n

Marilyn Kallet served as Knoxville Poet Laureate, June 2018-June 2020. She has published 18 books, including How Our Bodies Learned and The Love That Moves Me. VCCA honored her at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, as a \u201cWoman Artist of Influence.\u201d She has performed her poems on campuses across the United States as well as in France and Poland, as a guest of the U.S. Embassy\u2019s \u201cAmerica Presents\u201d program. Loftus house at Mount Saint Francis has offered a home to her poems for many years and a picture of Brother Bob today hangs in her kitchen. She still talks to and misses him often.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

In loving memory, Brother Bob Baxter
\nby Marilyn Kallet – Knoxville Poet Laurete 2018-2020<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

Where are you?
\nNow it\u2019s me and
\nThe fallen dogwood leaf
\nI brought from home ground
\nTo focus my mind.<\/p>\n

You lifted me up.
\nNo matter that I was Jewish.
\nWe talked Brooklyn, Long Island,
\nPrayers, mezuzahs,
\nThe hopes of our moms and dads.<\/p>\n

You opened door after door
\nFor me, the big ones,
\nTo Loftus House, to
\nFriendship, acceptance,
\nLaughter, peace of mind.<\/p>\n

Where are you?
\nThis brittle leaf with its two
\nTears for eyes
\nSays you have returned
\nTo dust.<\/p>\n

I will go out now and find
\nYour stone.
\nDear Brother,
\nI am angry, I am sad,
\nI miss you dearly,
\nI thank you<\/p>\n

Again for all you were,
\nYou gave.
\nI miss your laughter,
\nMount Saint Francis
\nIs more beautiful
\nBecause of you.<\/p>\n

Even the hibiscus
\nWaving its blossoms
\nAt the living room
\nWindow
\nSeems to agree.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This poem was orgianlly written and read as tribute to Brother Bob Baxter OFM Conv. at his funeral in 2018. It serves as a reminder of the importance and impact we can have on one another through interfaith relationships and dialogue. Marilyn Kallet served as Knoxville Poet Laureate, June 2018-June 2020. She has published 18...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2021-spring-st-anthony-let-us-dream"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-29 05:21:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9846"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11375,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9846\/revisions\/11375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franciscansusa.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}