My Words Fall in the Gap [a poem]
Posted On July 1, 2023
My words, they fall in the gapbetween your heart and minethey slip through the holebetween the kingdom that isand the kingdom that comes,they fall like… Read More →
Beyond the Broken [a poem]
Posted On May 6, 2023
I must admit I am afraid to love youbecause you are broken. I refuse to see you there in the street,lying in the stench of… Read More →
Words Can Be Walls [a poem]
Posted On April 1, 2023
A party, loud music, a few drinks, and a superficial conversation with a dear friend. Yet in both of us there’s this longing to connect… Read More →
Poised Between Two Choices [a poem]
Posted On March 4, 2023
here I standladen with your giftsfor you have given meevery good and needful thingthat I might live for you. here I standthe world beneath my… Read More →
A Body Out of Shape [a poem]
Posted On February 11, 2023
Lord it seems to meyour body is all out of shapeand the world stares aghastat this malformed oafdenouncing so muchwith its huge lipsobscuring the heart…. Read More →
Religious Druggery [a poem]
Posted On January 7, 2023
We have turned the teachings of Jesusinto a religion,living words into opium.We have turned a blasphemous prophetinto a harmless sacramentthat comforts and confirms:we are druggists,who… Read More →
Christmasanity [a poem]
Posted On December 17, 2022
Silent night, Holy night, Christmas cards, tinsel and bells, tender turkey and blood red ham, springtime lambs, fleecy white, pure and clean, each of us… Read More →
This Is What It Means [a poem]
Posted On November 5, 2022
Inspired by Jeremiah 22:13-17; Isaiah 1:1-20; 58:1-14; Amos 5:21-24; Matthew 25:31-46. Don’t palm me off with your civil religionand your politely murmured prayers,don’t hand me… Read More →
Another Funeral [a poem]
Posted On October 1, 2022
A brief glow of incandescencecasts it’s golden shadowalong the corridors of timea fragile silver threadby which we clingto the very breath of life. And all… Read More →