A Soaring Adventure
In the poem ‘Mythopoeia,’ which critics speculate is addressed to C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien makes the case for mythology as a means to understand reality: He sees…
With Pedro Romero before the Bull
He’s not seen two decades of suns, His skin is brown and blistered with memory; Our companion nervously folds his fingers, Pedro Romero buttons up his green…
The Scaffolding of Sanctification: A Review of City Nave
Much like life, sanctification begins in the dark and proceeds into the light. A Christian wakes to new life — St. Paul tells us that we leave…
The Bowl of Kumquats
There it sits, on the counter by the sink, a bowl of kumquats, each an owl’s eye, staring into me with equal measures judgment and innocence. I…
Versing the Mystery
How small that is, with which we wrestle, what wrestles with us, how immense? ~ Rainier Maria Rilke, Book of Images Christopher Villiers’ newest book of…
Communion of Roosters
Sat in the hen-house, The rooster clucks, Prior to his fulfillment of Prime “Have you ever thought about “cock-a-doodle-doo?” Saith one rooster ponderously. “How my call beckons…
The Wind is the Blowing: A Review of Crooked Plow
…the wind doesn’t blow, the wind is the blowing… ~ Itamar Vieira Junior In the Bahia province of Brazil, the rivers and trees pulsate with the…
Sherod Santos and Jean-Louis Chrétien on Redeeming the Unredeemable
“Her face appeared, puffed and up– Ended through a shock of curls, and smiled, Who knows, to forgive us all, men and boys, fathers And sons, all…
Frost on December 31st
As I walked to my car on December 31st in the darkened hours of day’s beginning, I noticed frost beginning to gather on my windshield— it’s creeping…
Approaching the Estuary
At dawn he enters the estuary. Day, night married in the golden ripples, like soft purple robes. While waves gently lap the sides of his skiff he…