Acts of Beauty, Acts of Humanity [a poem]
Posted On October 7, 2023
Mark 14:1-11 There were glimmers of beautyin your tears of shamethat fell like silverthat fell like raina jar is brokenpouring out its allinto this story,… Read More →
Wounded Healer [a poem]
Posted On September 2, 2023
You know me and you love meeven in the darkness of my fear,you are close and you are callingeven in my wretched gut-despair,you know me… Read More →
No Sparrow Falls [a poem]
Posted On August 5, 2023
No sparrow falls,nor molecule decayswithout you reaching out your hand.No tear cascades,no memory aches, or fadeswithout you conscious of it allNo last breath is drawn,no… Read More →
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 →