Tree Swirls

The world’s a riot color day with slants of prismed rainbow shine, and skies as blue as flaming seas, and leaves of ochre, pink, and thyme. And every then and now the breeze uncolored though his hand may be, wafts spots of bright around the trees in wild swirls of colors, freed. – So here […]

Dignificario

In little spits of little winds that spiral down the stairs of drifting drafts and gentle spins it arcs with grace and airs. – I’d have thought a leaf imbued with green for all to see, now dyed before a public view would feel…indecently. – But here it wafts on gentle sound a leaf adrift […]

Forgive Me, O Thou Queen of Roads

Forgive me, O thou Queen of roads, in SUV of spotless white, whose driving skills excel them all in wisdom, speed and flawless might. Forgive me; I am but a worm who never shouldst have braved the road at all, and much less in a bus— that crawling, large, obstructive load. Forgive me, O my […]

Noah’s God

How many years has it been since Noah passed? Since his aged frame stumbled beneath the curse and fell, yielding itself to death and to the field? The ones who saw his face and knew his voice likewise bent, and fell, and turned again to dust ages ago, their memories buried with them. No one […]

Holy Grief

The form was never alien to me— I knew the burning long before the name inscribed its letters on my heart in flame, my tiny lungs pronouncing agony— the ancient sorrow screamed through infancy. I learned the war on tears; I battled shame. I learned to swallow pain and look the same as stoics hailing […]

Nighttime Dance

The nightly sky was licorice the trees were chocolate foam, the moon was sighing happily and seemed to feel at home. The dogs were dancing gangily, their shadows lit the lawn: silhouettes we’d never heard that nighttime seemed to spawn. The flowers gambled gracefully and cheered like winter mice, while groundhogs bounded through the air […]

Let There Be Light

Darkness deep and long as Sabbath, deeper than a well, clinging on like dust to footprints empty like a shell. Hear! a voice, here intonation words abound today. Someone spits into the dust-road cakes his eyes in clay. Now he’s groping slowly onward toward Siloam’s pool, eager heart in racing footfalls though he feels the […]

Remember?

“and this rain is nothing, really. there was the time it poured, out of the blue–or nearly (nothing’s ever quite out of the blue) and stayed 5 whole days so that our gutters overran and the kids splashed in the front yard pond. But the sun came out, burned through that gauzy cloud. It will […]

To sleep,

to lay aside the blear of toil and resting unafraid, to lay yourself in softness royal and feel the blank of bliss; to give oneself in utter up-ness up to smoothest night, to lose your fears and sleep in faith-ness to trust and wake with light; to close the sight and see the stories dance […]

Risen Indeed

Lift your eyes, oh see the promise made to prophets long ago, One who comes to crush the serpent stands upon His conquered foe. Rises from the gates that held him, breaks the seal upon His grave, rises whole, and round about Him crowd the souls His life has saved. – All the fathers ever […]