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Poems


The Fix
I am a shattered pot, chards of clay. I am a tattered knot, threads of fray.


Into me
As I play out his tragedy, I doubt that you're into me. For how could such majesty, seek out mortal intimacy?


A Walk in the Garden
Let us go for a walk in the garden. Let us be as we're meant to be.


Tide Came In
From nowhere waves washed in today.
Consumed me, wet rags and disarray...


The Middle
Dejected to perfected—a spectrum I’ve elected.


Yoked
Weary, I schlep this weight and regret my fate. Teary, I wept so late, so inept my state


Acres
Maybe I should have some acres, to be like the mammon makers...


All-Time Happy Man
Lining up life so all things go well, declining all strife to remain in the shell...So's the plan of all-time happy man.


No greater love was that
A Memorial Day poem


The Voice That Stilled the Sea
Cacophony upon me, a rancor room sans softening, deafening doom soon offering, if only tuned toward scoff we be...


The Fence
Around my home in an arid land with tamarisk trees and steaming sand, my father built a fence.


The Picture
I've painted you a picture, a mural complicated...


The Low Place
Embarking on a great ascent to meet you in the high place...


Dead men
A reflection on John 20: 19-22


50 Shames of Gray
Violence you mask as fetish, narcissistic deeds you relish...


A Boy
A boy, the apple of his Maker's eye...


Who Sees My Plan?
There's a plan for me, dramatic destiny, of whose eyes do see, isn't clear to me...


If Only
Thinking back on what transpired, so much more was once desired...


Anonymous
Three men stood upon the shore,
pondering their being, gazing at the vast beyond, groping after meaning...


End Grim, But Grace
End, how frightfully fast its coming...


The Deepest
The deepest darkness, the deepest separation, the deepest Hell, Christ knew on that day.


Aspersions
Sitting 'round the table, captivated by the fable, getting wrapped up in the cycle...
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