Poetry

Adam Talks With Sisyphus About Gardening
Sisyphus, I forgot to say that, thoughthe sun always dies before I’ve finished,and, when sweat and soil sting my brow, I’ve wishedthese weeds would be

Absolution
Church bells rung candles ligted welcome offered we stand to sing …

Lord of Light and Dark
who maketh stars to leap in the gaped black mouth of heaven …

Choosing Stones
The last thing the Gittite saw was a laughable pebble flung by a gnat of a boy …

Psalm, roughly the size of a lung
The hate mail appeared in the church Suggestion Box …

Compulsion
After our home burned down in the Tea Fire, I started picking up trash on the streets …

Upon Our Seeing the Grand Tetons for the First Time
Deplaning the gondola after the steep ascent into the cloud-turbaned peaks, I am stepping high …

Aeronaut
We’d become accustomed to the wonders that he worked–the wheel that drives the mill …

Broken Balm
Life does not consist of accumulating small comforts …

My Lord I Sit Beige and Bubble Wrapped
My Loud I sit beige and bubble-wrapped when all my friends forskae me for jobs …

Sowing
Yes, the seeds are small, the ground hard and rocky …

In the Precincts of the Holy
The room, replete with what is about to happen, is full as well with coughing …