I the East am one arm.
I am West the other.
My forehead is an unfurled
name. I will always be warm
with his body I bore like a mother.
My roots are the roots of the world.
Pete Green was born in 1932; he graduated from Georgetown in 1954 and the U.S. Army in 1956. He spent twelve years in a Discalced Carmelite monastery, and now lives in Irvington, New York.