DOROTHY (SNODGRASS) BROWN, Ph. D.
(1914-2004)
University Professor, Poet
Honolulu, Hawaii and Berea, Kentucky
Retired Springfield, Missouri

FAITH


It's hard for me, I told the priest,
To believe in guardian angels.

Don't worry, he said,
That's not important.

When I went home I saw
my two children walking along
the steep roof of our house.

Before I called them to come down
I said a silent prayer
to their guardian angels.

Dorothy S. Brown