Desmond Francis Xavier Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé (b. 1971)

1. BIOGRAPHY

2. CRITICAL INTRODUCTION

3. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

4. SELECTED POEMS

• A Koan Catalogue

• jericho

• Allegory 2

• Seated Between Kensho and Numinosity: A Sestina

• Catachresis, Then Catechesis

• Postmeridian Dalí II

• Sonnet to Adoration of the Holy Eucharist: List Poem

5. TRACK CHANGES: “GERTRUDE STEIN’S APRAXIA / APHASIA”

SELECTED POEMS

Postmeridian Dalí II

After The Ascension of Christ, 1958

“God has not the slightest need for our proofs.”—Karl Barth

this afternoon walk
of science

i’m starting 
to remember 

cosmic dreams
make for their truth

someone is in step
ahead

blind to conversation
wind-thrown

each statement
another position

mislaid
slow-going ricochet

like flat stone
readied

agreed, let us
note the difference:

stone skipping
or stone skimming

how many times
to bounce the idea

how far to go
before finality

by Desmond Francis Xavier Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
from Heart Fiat: New Catholic Poems (2024)

SELECTED POEMS: “Sonnet to Adoration of the Holy Eucharist: List Poem” >