“In short (and what else is there)
I believe the only real prayer
is a list, not of requests but of beliefs;
and this phenomenon of naming
is just another form of breathing
that reminds me how to be and how to leave”
From the poem ‘Credo’ in Pat Boran’s 1996 collection ‘The Shape of Water’
See : http://www.patboran.com/
Pat Boran reads another of his poems (A Man Is Only as good’) here
