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Sep 14, 20241 min read

Flesh and Soul

Are they stars or dust? And what, then, am I? Is it silent or hushed 'neath the snow-cloudy sky? Are the tree branches growing or...

Jul 6, 20241 min read

Rainy Night

Life’s so noisy. It’s not easy to be quiet. If you are, though, if you listen, the tapping rain keeps time with your ticking heart the...

Jun 28, 20241 min read

Purpose

What goodness is gained from fancy-free flitting? from pining for pleasure? from dodging discomfort? I’d rather find fruit in the fallow...

Jun 14, 20241 min read

Lonely Soul

This poem is based on the experiences of friends of mine who grew up in the U.S. but live in other parts of the world. I think there's a...

Jun 7, 20241 min read

Half-life

Life often fails to offer opportunities to choose. Happy, sad, rich, poor—these things are more fact than function of our fiction free...

Jun 1, 20241 min read

The Aftermath of Fellowship

The silence kept holy to the echoes of chat and laughter of joys and sorrows shared The sinkful of plates testifies to the many who’ve...

May 26, 20241 min read

Little

It’s your little heart that feels things big your little arms that hug me huge your little eyes that see it all your little world that...

May 18, 20241 min read

Stories

When your mother tells her story, how she fell in love before he crossed her path, you never think those men were more than cameos that...

May 11, 20241 min read

The City is Sinking

The city is sinking by increments. Etching an impression that’s permanent. The sheer pressing force, the full weight of it depress earth...

May 4, 20241 min read

Living

I will fill up my lungs with the cool wind I will soak my pale face with warm sun Dig my hands greedily into deep sand And dare mountains...

Apr 26, 20241 min read

How to Sing

Breathe. Fill yourself with the silent stuff of sound. Feel lungs press muscles press ribs. Expand until your stature commands the room’s...

Apr 19, 20241 min read

Thirty-thousand Feet

Indigo shadows anchor foaming clouds to earth. Blinding mountains crawl slowly over the face of the ground. From a god’s-eye view, I...

Apr 13, 20241 min read

In a Quiet Far from Stillness

In a quiet far from stillness, the solemn trees applaud with rasping leaves the brash wind shooting shadow-waves along the wrinkled...

Mar 14, 20241 min read

In Memory of Quiet

This never-ending noise is grating. Pointless at best exhausting at least at worst, strangling the soul. Clamoring for attention,...

Jun 17, 20221 min read

Common Grace

Common grace, creation’s song, uncommon to be heard by herds of heavy-burdened souls not listening to the birds who whistle chirping...