MICHAEL LONGLEY

I got a free ticket
to sit in the orchestra pit
to hear the Passion
I met a priest from Brazil
named Adrian
of the Carmelites
who was writing a bio
on Juan de la Cruz
told me he was Jewish
he sent the bio to me
read and reviewed it
as a mystic Sephardic
I could feel his prayers
in a Cabbalistic way
from tongues
down in Recife.