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Schrödinger’s wedding
Until its surface tension breaks upon the steward’s tongue – dissipating sweetness, sweat of vineyard labourers, honey of the sun-ripened harvest – it is neither water nor wine; until the jars are filled to overflowing, until a drop is spilled, … Continue reading
New Year’s resolutions
More Jesus, less judgement More Magnificat, less might makes right More mercy, less Schadenfreude More love, less envy More transformation, less conformation More inspiration, less trepidation More Jesus, less me More Jesus
Solstice
Through darkest day and longest nightshines the terrifying angel’s light,illuminating more than we can bear: the reversal of gravity proclaimed by a magnificat, revolution of earth and heaven on earth borne by the bodies intertwined of mother and child, full … Continue reading
For the hardness of your heart
For the times you turned your face to reflect in the silver of idols, the glittering teeth of that which dreams but which is not God; for the sake of forgiving, I let you go, so that upon awakening you … Continue reading
Succession
Arguing succession and success,was the prophetic failure of deatha threat to their ambition, or of what were they afraid: the banality of the cross,perverse instinct of humankind to kill, to crush instead of to create; or the riposte of otherworldly … Continue reading
Get thee behind, Satan
A piercing crown of loneliness, seductive pain plays behind the eyes; a weary hand passes over as though palming pennies for the dead. Easier to surrender now to sleep and rise in glory than to die. Who then, though, to … Continue reading
Ephphatha
The risks of cracking ajar the teeth, loosing the tongue of fire fanned by vague spirits, unstopping the ears, allowing the world to pound its wares upon its drums outweighed in an instant by the shriek of an eagle drafting … Continue reading
Walking on water
Because the clutch between creation and Creator is solid. Because the Word that spoke light into being fills the space between waves and atoms so that none is wasted, so that there is not room between one thought of God and another to … Continue reading
Leftovers
One made bread pudding, another, croutons for soup.One mashed them in milk next day for the baby’s breakfast. The important thing was, they got to keep the crumbs, got to bring bread home, swapping hunger for sufficiency, sharing recipes for remainders;that … Continue reading
Genesis
I heard that they found a cave on the moon. Even from this twilight I can see craters and cliffs; I cannot imagine that there would not be a cave, but this, they said, could become a home from home, … Continue reading
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