Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle […]
Recitative: Behold, I Tell You a Mystery
June 15, 2015 By
“Behold, I shew you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” – 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 This CD is full […]
Microsoft Company Portrait 1978 — and Prophecy
April 27, 2015 By
I. Yes, everyone that year owned too much Italian Polyester. Farrah Fawcett managed to flip-and-giggle, but no one else. Contact lenses then were all rigid — less comfortable than a good pair of coke bottle glasses, yes. But these twelve against the living room wall in scruffy suburbia, Sweating into the sofa while the photographer […]
The Astronaut’s Wife
March 23, 2015 By
I longsufferingly confide you to the shadow
As I stare at the capsule slipping in orbit
Behind the chalky, round lamp inconstant, and I
Imagine you cradled in space, suckled by tubes
Blind City Planner
August 25, 2014 By
City of God and City of Man. this landscape suggests a few things the city planners don’t understand. Cities have a way of wrapping you in sinking you deeper and deeper each day as your roots are severed from flesh and blood and the rawness of rural life. We faint at the realities of life. […]
A Reader
June 16, 2014 By
Take her, for instance, as she sits, her legs folded beneath her on the couch’s worn brown corduroy, presently transfixed by the window’s rainy striations and fingering absently the olive weave cover of the book on her lap, its pages splayed like a gaping mouth—can she realize she is its aspiration? See her lift her […]
Web 2.0
April 28, 2014 By
As the rain fades headlights trace an electronic image of neon lights on the road side slick from the drops which also litter the silky trap where the spider shudders and shimmies another day another dollar working for the man at the office more bread winning where the loaf has beady eyes and wings […]
After Sparknotes
April 7, 2014 By
After the book came SparkNotes, prepared at a moment’s notice to simplify character, plot, and theme for those who need the classics with less language and sophistication. Tired of studying? Sponsored ads offer competing models of interest with informative captions like “Find Your Secret Crush Now” and “Cutest Celebs on Twitter.” You can click them […]
About Your Artsy Facebook Profile Pic
December 2, 2013 By
Hey, look at that— petunias near a curb, yet I can’t help but think it’s still superbly about you, you as you coyly hold back beyond the frame, saying matter-of-factly that it’s not about me and no “me” here. But everyone knows. It’s totally clear. Garish enough, however you treat it: no need for initials, […]
Hearing Bly Read
June 6, 2013 By
His words bubbled from the speakers as he bantered with the host, his voice coffee-warm with a Norwegian froth; he began reading in a tone one might use when granting deepest confidence— interrupting himself, making mid-poem commentary, repeating favorite stanzas— and I knew again that I was fatherless, and I felt like a blind […]
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