Love
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Nothing is Still
Behold, nothing is still. If you look, no, lookand still your eyeon the cypress, the brookis easy, but the cypress too—watch themgo, now; eyes, open they, meant to hide, quakein prescient wind, slowbut moving. Move in close, seethe distance increase. In, now; lean, nowtitanic movements beneath them, shakewith each second movingin atomic cadence— worlds, even Continue reading
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Daring to Speak of Heaven
The first of four reflections on the vision of heaven in Revelation 4-5 Continue reading
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And Every Day Since – A Memory
Here’s my permission to skip this poem and post. I can’t think of a more depressing way to end the year. I’ve been thinking about grief a lot lately, perhaps because of my chronic nostalgia, or the holidays, or something else entirely. So, I wrote this poem about a moment that has haunted me, a Continue reading
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The Parish- A Sonnet
Into the deep, the waves, the weep, the homes The farm, the soul, and time, and fear, the known And unknown. Few, we traverse winter’d wildsValleys shadowed by death and devil and direDespair. Arctic explorers encased in, Capsized often by our own woes, our sins Yet still we go, no expertise nor ease But dressed in place, in time, in Continue reading
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Nothing is Still
Behold, nothing is still. If you look, no, lookAnd still your eyeOn the cypress, the brookIs easy, but the cypress too—Watch them,Go, now; eyes, open; They, meant to hide, quakeIn prescient wind, slowBut moving. Move in close, seeThe distance increase. In, now; lean, now;Titanic movements Beneath them, shakeWith each second movingIn atomic cadence— Worlds, even after all this time,Unknown to Continue reading
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A Never-Had Memory
I walked, worn and weary, in straits of my own making. Alone, despair, sun-drenched, dry, soul-wrung, cliff-ridden. Atop the mesa my eye caught a glimpse of life’s abiding breeze. Of the balm of branch and trunk and leaf.Of shade, a never-had memory. But it left before my heart could swell, lifting my gaze to future groves. Long ages, epochs, buffeting drought, till, filled Continue reading
Revival and Renewal 