St. Levan’s Well: A Triolet

Written by Jacob Riyeff

We walked along a forest path
And drank from St. Levan’s well.
For a moment we lived the past;
We walked along a forest path.
And though we knew it wouldn’t last
As the spring flowed to the wind-swept swell,
We walked along a forest path
And drank from St. Levan’s well.

Jacob Riyeff

Jacob Riyeff is a translator, poet, and scholar whose work focuses on the western contemplative tradition. His most recent book is an edition of The Poems and Counsels on Prayer and Contemplation of the seventeenth-century Benedictine Dame Gertrude More. Jacob teaches in the English department at Marquette University and lives in Milwaukee, WI.

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