I know there’s no “autoreply” for a blog, but….Here’s a question to ponder: In Psalm 51, David says that God doesn’t want burnt offerings from him, but a broken and contrite heart.I’ve always taken that for granted, until I...
I received my first award for writing in grade school, for an essay about fire prevention. (Made me scared to death of open flames for years, but that’s another story.) When I was in high school, one of my teachers entered my poetry into some state-wide...
TRAMRIDE This thin thin wireSways in generous bulging arcsFrom breeze to breezeLike a child’s jumpropeOr the rippling undulationsOf a lustrous serpentMoving through thick waters.We are suspended underThis snakeropeAnd we are pulled alongBy it. There is no...
Perhaps you find in your relationship with the Lord that intimacy brings its own kinds of tension, as this poem demonstrates.The Communion MatchOh, body of Christ!Oh, body of Christ!Oh blood-filled poresOh bones wrenched out of socketsBy its own newly-paralytic...
Here’s a poem about the relationship of icons to linguistic representations.Yours is the language of maps,The tracing out with light-veined fingerThe green veins of mountainsStroking softly, just with the padsOf the sides of your thumbsThe ochre lushness of a...
