Mary Bilderback

Mary Bilderback is a member of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas. She has taught biology at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey, for more than 25 years with the help of many poems. She continues to wonder how life can ever possibly hope to explain itself. She writes to pay attention.

By this Author

We have made things that we ought to let go of

'Oh, Earth, you're too wonderful'

Look at each wonder of the world with awe and praise

What would it mean to be seen, and see the world, with Easter eyes?

To make of our lives something beautiful

A deep bow to the company summoned

A sacred reciprocity: a cross-kindom collaboration

Welcome to the Holy Thursday Revolution

The astonished abyss of the capital letter O

Logos — never uttered the same way twice

I would never help a worm cross the road

It's all there for birds of Home Depot

The fall of Icarus: longing to be free