Mertonian can mean silence <br />and hermitage, and hermit like <br />trust, in, <br />waiting, knowing we are carried <br />purposively. <br />In silence his deepest conversation <br />with self and Other, <br />was put into grammar construction. <br />The loudness of the world's shop window, <br />and the embers of the evening, <br />hermitage stove, contrast <br />as storm and calm. <br /> <br />In his hermitage, the story <br />mountain, and to elect for <br />silence. Sinai, Tabor, or Horeb <br />all built in silence, <br />the inner dynamo.<br /><br />Bernard Kennedy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/stillness-thomas-merton/
