Shari Wagner

DECEMBER 2008: POETRY by Shari Wagner The Prayers of Saint Meinrad Saint Meinrad Archabbey, Spencer County, IN For more than a century, prayers like flakes of snow have been falling. They drift across the hillside and melt on each station of the cross. They cover the graves where monks rest beneath Gregorian chants, touch the Romanesque spires of the abbey, soak into sandstone walls. Vespers sweep through a corridor, past photographs of young priests, to accumulate near St. Benedict with…