Poems
Poems
A Dedication
These words are for the artists and dreamers
Who want a slippery God,
Not the stone one
nailed permanently to a cross in old buildings,
tacked down in polity and institution.
These are letters to the distracted ones
Endlessly scrolling the glowing screen
Needing a word to help them look...
Stay
I know the thousand ways
Life can break your heart.
The ways others can cut you
Without even noticing the wound.
How the struggle feels like too much.
And everything aches.
And there is no cure.
I know the drudgery of it.
The dailiness of the same,
and the same,...
The Gift of Years
Thirty-some journeys round the sun
on this beautiful spinning globe
of budding earth and swirling sea.
I have been, with you,
a part of the eternal dance
in this vast expanse
of unknown universes.
Here, on our little patch
of known time and space
each day is small, but holy...
To Be Born
Your life until now
Has been all warmth and shadow,
As you float to the music
of distant muffled voices, and dance
to the rhythms of heart and breath.
You know nothing but the comfort
Of this perfect blanket of dark.
This cocoon of water and flesh
Is the only...