Saint Michael of Wheaton
like Anselm and Paul
gifted words to those needing to speak.
With eloquent reason
and faith-grounded thought,
Michael strengthened the hopeful and weak.
He gave a Bush fire
that brilliantly burned
as the White House became holy ground.
And like Gershwin, Mike Gerson
made simple words sing
through his adjectives, adverbs and nouns.
And today we are grieving
the death of a man
who gave life through the columns he wrote.
Through Saint Michael of Wheaton,
Christ’s Kingdom has grown
by a journalist’s penchant for notes.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/19/1137925730/opinion-remembering-mike-gerson-washington-post-columnist
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/11/17/michael-gerson-speechwriter-post-dies/
My Rhymes and Reasons 