At Home in the Snow
I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places -Frost, ‘Desert Places’ Now a downy snow floats down…
God’s Scarecrow
The people stood by and watched; The rulers, meanwhile, sneered at him ~ Luke 23:35 Husk and shell of yourself, and yourself only nothing But so…
In a Dry and Fiery Season
He holds back the waters and there is drought; He sends them forth and they overwhelm the land -Job 12:15 There hasn’t been a gust of…
Too Bright to See
It’s too dark out now to catch fireflies She sighed, and while not quite right Neither was it, I believe, a childish lie- A cast line, rather,…
A Drive to Live
Seventy is the sum of our years, Or eighty, if we are strong ~ Psalm 90 Now I know how Death’s closer than it appears By looking…
Impressions of a Rainbow that Never Showed
Into every life a little rain must fall… There’s no rainbow without the rain… …
Dancing and Danger
Two sisters, not more than three or four, Twisted and twirled in tight, bright circles Across the floor of Your World Coffee Near where I sat last…
In a Maiden Season
(Lyrical impressions and flowery meditations on some picked theme of her and me) …
Some Notes on (Not) Noticing
He saw no colour but those he knew…but they were fresh and poignant, as if he had at that moment first perceived them. - Tolkien, The Two…
One Less Leaf
(auras of all my autumns) I One less leaf, though a loss, is no cause for grief, Not when so many still cling tightly to their…
At the Revolutionary Graveyard
(On Death, and the desecration and desertion of the once-living by the future-dead) I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he…
Lines Like Incense
May my prayer be set before you like incense -Psalm 141:2 Smoke of incense with prayers of the holy ones Went up before God from the hand…