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- Jan 24, 2019
- 1 min
Doubt
There are moments I remember that even the schools of crickets are multitudinous, and that waiting for the rain makes the sun too bright....
- Jan 21, 2019
- 1 min
Conversations
Conversations with Jesus on the front porch. So many worries. That's true, he says. Everything moving by things I can't see. But perhaps,...
- Jan 20, 2019
- 1 min
damascus
I haven’t asked him for his number because now I am known, now the I-I-I am afraid, now I am up there on the raggedy cross with Christ:...
- Jan 20, 2019
- 1 min
Incantate
We’re not always looking for an ancient cadence. Sometimes the many-pistoned hum is enough. The beginning and end of every journey: our...
- Jan 20, 2019
- 1 min
a better question
In the end, I suppose the better question is: how does the ocean feel about us?
- Jan 20, 2019
- 1 min
FOLLOW ME
I emerged from my door and carried into my present moment the quivering skeleton of a whom this poem is for, a what is trying to be...
- Jan 20, 2019
- 1 min
District Porch
On the front porch of my sister’s District rowhome September reds breach the green like an early monsoon, a wave of the knowledge of...
- Jan 20, 2019
- 1 min
Sinners
The only sin is not knowing the bigger picture, and even then it’s nothing new: No one stopped the strangling fig. No one rescued Job....
- Jan 20, 2019
- 1 min
Humiliation
Faith: is when you can't remember what it is you have forgotten, but you know that it is good. Humiliation begets humility begets wisdom...
- Jan 19, 2019
- 1 min
I heard it in the rain.
How to love a long-living green, a resting place at rest. How to love a family filled with sediment and wormholes — How to love a lover...
- Jan 19, 2019
- 1 min
The Commotion
The littlest games the ego plays: what a marvelous match. And what but underbrush could burn and burn away the burdens on your back?...
- Jan 19, 2019
- 1 min
Tilting, Tilting
I watch the shadows of the morning conjoin the flat white globe of noon, I watch the swallows’ silhouette weave holy wakes above the...
- Jan 17, 2019
- 1 min
a thing of god
Assurance settles as morning mist, the exhalation of the warming earth, the churning dirt, an ungraspable above the ground. And the...
- Jan 15, 2019
- 1 min
acid rain through clay
our men are never finished our women only begin our sunset women, our people of the dusk our sadder but wiser women and all folk who...
- Jan 15, 2019
- 1 min
Samawati
I am a cross-section of the Living God the Samawati starling that’s me more like a vessel of water overlapping on itself Samawati...
- Jan 11, 2019
- 1 min
THE BEAT
A man uncomfortable with his age, at a party under a tree far older than he, said, “Couldn’t they at least change the beat once in a...
- Jan 5, 2019
- 1 min
winter
a season, a season sing to yourself a season but to your bones it is deep, deep winter
- Jan 5, 2019
- 1 min
calling all gods everywhere
Calling all gods everywhere — make yourselves useful; cease your petty quibbling and show yourselves. It has appeared that unless you...
- Jan 5, 2019
- 1 min
love, noun
love, noun: actually the opposite of what you thought — not the rush of blood to your head, to your heart. not a verb, or at least not a...
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