Sermon of the Sparrows
Go sit on your porch. This place will teach you Everything you need to seed and grow. The sermons of sparrows will rise to greet you, So…
Some Notes on Contentment and its Opposite
1 Happiness is contentment when nothing’s happening, Is not the bliss of not missing out on some moment Gone almost before we are or were aware…
Book Launch
For David Chan When my friend and fellow-poet launched my latest book, reciting chosen bits and some whole poems, the customary gathered handful listened in respectful silence…
The Clockmaker
O, what if we were wrong? What if the far-distant clockmaker, mechanical God, tick and tock taker, disdains efficiency, preferring song. All the pride of human wit,…
Vine and Fruit
Like the fruit in the youthful Tree In the easterly garden long ago The Lord Jesus wants us to see The life-giving food He does bestow And…
On the Last Day of Advent
Evening. Out for the usual walk. The yards are all aglow. Though, amid these patchworks of anticipation, the mind wanders along the shadows in between. In the…
Beaver Pond
Gently we walk the path by beaver pond, amid bracken and brush, we are whirred by Egyptian-like plagues of blue-eyed, winged invertebrates. Not enough to break branch…
Caligula and Jerusalem
He was strongly inclined to assume the diadem, and change the form of government, from imperial to regal; but being told that he far exceeded the grandeur…
February is the Longest Month
I stand in the way of growth frozen in place so long have I been without the sun Deeply have I settled among grass roots and leaf…
The World by X-Machina
Why do you expect to see | the kingdom come before thee? You complain it isn’t here—like a tram or bus— Is that how it should be?…
Vanished in Appalachia
The morning sky is still black and dark As my eyes awake and look on high. A chorus of birds begin to sing for me As the…