Laundry Room Prayer
From the warm, stilled drum I retrieve and fold Our clothes in blue-gray morning light in the Mud Room. Mud Room, we call it the Laundry Room,…
The Lion Gate
Sensuous hills of barren bush carpeted with almond stones where soldiers marched important tunes, once in armors bronze. The same steps and crumbs beneath my soles, stamped…
Abraham and Isaac
I go out now, to kill my chosen son, He who has given him so takes away His promise, orders that completely stun My soul, yet God’s…
The Ineffable
My mouth is dry, drawn, and hot, Strained from attempts to utter Words that man cannot — Though my bosom feels a flutter; For I have seen…
Gurus: A Poem
I set out on a day-hike, and somehow wound up in the Valley of Suffering. Guess who I met there? You. The Ganges and Amazon have nothing…
The Watcher in the Dark
1 How long, I wonder, will this dull light Last? Every shadow extends, approaches, The sparrows take one brief flight - Then another – and drop to…
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…
In Silence
We often know less than we think we know an opening comment on prayerful discernment She laughed at that and went on gabbing like a bird Perhaps…
Another Odyssey
Odysseus Mad Odysseus makes us row To certain death at double speed. How much further have we to go, Till into sea our lives last-bleed? War is…
Persephone’s Prayer
In Greek mythology, Demeter, the goddess of the harvest, rescues her daughter, Persephone, from eternal winter in Hades and restores her to the land of the living…