Poetry

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 …

Imagining Iran, March 2026
We have no uncontaminated words for this