Poetry


The jar the woman left beside the well
the large jar lays beside the well of the city’s forefather …


Malchus
There are at least two Machuses in heaven. Malchus according to LUke has at least two ears but no name …


Michigan Spring
First leaves of trout lily among the roots of a bare beech tree …


Manual Labor
Against the turnings of solstice hope sprouts eternal …


Wrapped and Laid
Wrapped and laid beginning and end bloth and cloth birth and death …


Every Sunday Morning
the phone rings–my grandmother’s voice winds through static, light as the creek curling around her back porch …


It’s About Us
It’s about us which is an empathy pronoun, replacing her and him and you and it and, praise the Lord, other.


Lost Sheep
Seventy-seven pounds of wool on that merino sheep who got lost
in the Outback.


Table
Let the sparrow take a chair at the Juneteenth table with Elijah …


You Said, Let There Be Light
You said, Let there be light, and there was light. And you saw that the light was good …


Jesus, Son of Gop
On the night he was supposed to be betrayed, Jesus strapped on a Glock under his cloak, just in case the breastplate of righteousness didn’t


Blessed
Unnoticed except by their Maker, my wife and me–a dozen sparrows blissful at their ablutions …