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3<br />
SPRING 13<br />
collage: Adele Travisano<br />
What<br />
Rash Vows: Poems and Paintings On the Life of St. Francis<br />
Where<br />
Carney Gallery, <strong>Regis</strong> <strong>College</strong> Fine Arts Center<br />
When<br />
March 15–May 13<br />
Writer Julia Lisella, associate professor of English at <strong>Regis</strong>,<br />
and artist Adele Travisano collaborated on a project on the<br />
life and works of St. Francis of Assisi. Rash Vows, now on view<br />
in the Carney Gallery, brings to life the 13th century St. Francis<br />
through pairing the collages of Travisano with the original<br />
poems of Lisella.<br />
St. Francis and the Hungry Wolf<br />
When a wolf visited the village, yes, hungry.<br />
Francis said, feed it, for even the wolf requires<br />
our part in the field of life.<br />
And if the wolf had crept closer?<br />
Fingertips of Francis, mouth of Francis<br />
blessed by that meeting, the wildness in<br />
both their hearts pumping?<br />
Scent of fear in both their hearts stilled<br />
with a bright kiss of skin on fur? Neither<br />
denying.<br />
Little flowers are stories like<br />
tiny boxes in a child’s room. That he lived,<br />
that together with the wolf who came to ravage the village<br />
he made something like love, concession, agreement.<br />
The wolf’s madness cured by accepting<br />
Francis’s gift.
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