[…] area of scholarship has long been the Italian epic tradition and, more recently, the iconography of pre -twentieth–century ballet performers. Notwithstanding these facts, what I do know is that I very much needed to […]
Listen the Out Loud version of this poem here. In his artistic agony,diamond drops of bloodcovered Christ’s chiseled body,sacred sweat shimmeredin the light of the Passover moon.The Son of God, an altarpiece,in serene pain and…
Listen the Out Loud version of this poem here. Stern little lady,ancestor in an oval frame,I like the way your shoulders slopeand your fingers dangleover the book and the carpetbag skirt.I like the way your…
[…] was the Black Hawk War? Oh that. No, not by the new grandparent grave ten kids clean -cut and temple–topped. Not mine but close. No, not by the flat slabs of a family plot. […]
Listen the Out Loud version of this poem here. How that late sabbath afternoon you sat cross -legged on their lawn, Elder S at your side, the couple just across, their backs to her […]
[…] when head and neck torque to investigate sudden disquiet, to say how, why, and can we re -member what happens in the flesh when God and we come to be . . . Note: […]
[…] toward us, fading coal of memory igniting into color, presence and invisibility becoming one, Christ choosing fishers -of–men on a heightened mural wall behind the rostrum. Here, our woes know no hierarchy, all grief […]
[…] would proclaim, “This is clearly the lost tribe of Issachar (or Zebulon, or Gad). Check another one off the list.” To my naïve understanding, a meaningful gathering would require clear historical, scriptural, or other […]
[…] that I did not recognize in the slightest. When my downfall reached the rock bottom of on -the–streets homelessness, it finally occurred to me that what I had been experiencing might meet criteria for […]
[…] repentant sinner and allowing him or her to be reconciled to God.” I was in my mid -thirties when I discovered that this penal substitution idea is one of many different theories of what […]