(Paul Keiffer/Unsplash) I the East am one arm. I am West the other. My forehead is an unfurled name. I will always be warm with his body I bore like a mother. My roots are the roots of the world. Pete Green was born in 1932; he graduated from Georgetown in 1954 and the U.S. Army in 1956. He spent twelve years in a Discalced Carmelite monastery, and now lives in Irvington, New York. Also by this author This story is included in these collections: Lenten Reflections Get Commonweal's latest, delivered twice weekly. Email address Published in the February 2021 issue: View Contents Most Recent Trump’s Offshore Gulag By The Editors April 17, 2025 Rather than Void By Dominic Preziosi April 17, 2025 Failures of Will By Dominic Preziosi April 17, 2025