An Agnostic’s Thanksgiving Prayer before the Meal
God of the universe, Whoever you are, Whatever you are, Why ever you choose to hear this ….or palaver with us at all, We thank you for this bird, bean, […]
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Chiaroscuro
A Grappler’s Prayer
Tireless God You engage this wrestling soul You immobilize me, swift with every counter. At war with You, I am outmatched, outnumbered, outmaneuvered, outranked I am an outlier. I sit […]
A Memorial Day?
Winged Babies
A painting of God’s angels caught my eye during a movie about fathers and sons reconciling. The painter’s heaven is winged babies, unusually skilled at playing harps and hovering over […]
The Fall
I drove to the Carolinas to see the drama of changing leaves on the stage of the Smoky Mountains. My mother lives there, accompanied by arthritis. She is changing, too. […]
Dreaded Hope
If it had just fallen on my toe Things might have been better But I dropped it square on my head The idea of Change Now I have a date […]
Poetic Offerings
“Try to raise up the sunken feelings of [your] enormous past… And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will […]
