Category: Poetry
Lucid
‘Lucid’ is part of expired sentiments, a short poetry collection available here for download.
Ordering at a Nearby Coffee Shop
‘Ordering at a Nearby Coffee Shop’ is part of expired sentiments, a short poetry collection available here for download.
“Surrender.”
Visibility
expired sentiments
Here’s a snippet of my recently published work, ‘expired sentiments’! Time works weirdly in that now is the right moment for me to turn to old written experiences. Just enough distance to say I don’t resonate with them anymore but that doesn’t mean they ought to be completely forgotten. So, here they are, hoping their…
committed abandon
Advance care
Our youngest, my favorite:her progress My computer screen showedthe only thing I didn’t know for lunch Who, what whereConcern for every detail of our lives the deepest needs of our heartspromised to us, watching over today
Excerpt from an expat’s memoir
A five-year adventure in a foreign land I never dreamed ofit is what promised their mothers or fathers,sons or daughtersin a culture where society, highly valued,promised life forsaken Contentment, meaning, and fulfillmentwe pour ourselves out of
On the tree
On the tree is One of the earliest Christian poems: this ancient crucifixion retold from perspective rejects the Idea But all will believe the forbidden spirit, the human race: a sin and death inexpressibly wonderful
The Holy Grail
We serve a god who loves more our work to responsibly take care of the world that god created the god expects us to serve weak, hungry, naked, thirsty, broken remain alert to respond we must forget this because there may come a time when our ability to “do for god” is torn from us…