POETRY on this rich ground James Matthew Wilson For the Wedding of JL and DP September 21, 2013 On this rich ground Where the vines promise To visit upon us Fruit for wine presses, We gather round, In decorous colors, In ties and collars And formal dresses. We stand upright And speak in words Carefully discerned, Given fitting measure. James Matthew Wilson's most recent books are Some Permanent Things and The Catholic Imagination in Modern American Poetry. He teaches in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University. 105