Category Archives: Verse
River Mercy
At his feet she is laid resting, holding up the sun to him; she presses it up into his boughs, and carelessly drops the rays to filter through him. And he sees his self image in her reflections. She naps between them this afternoon. She is her blood; together they stain the rocks and earth [...]
I never knew
I never knew that I’d been blind; Then I saw your eyes. There was nothing In the world, And then his hand Fell on her shoulder. The neighbors said He’d always been a strong swimmer The day he fell into your eyes.
Dawn Prayer Revisited
I just posted this one on the Think Atheist social networking site; thought I’d share it here: Beneath the dim glow between night and day, before the storm, the lioness retreated to the creekside wood. He turned from the reptilian altostratus in the high, blue east to the storm-laden west and blinked: A flash of [...]
Sacraments
I am serious about my religion. I don’t take its sacraments lightly. They may cause you discomfort: A long walk, a trusted companion, an open fire. I cannot imagine a relic, a book, or a doctrine more sacred. Perhaps you doubt them. Perhaps I doubt yours. A walk through a wood A walk through a [...]
Kissing the Killer
Throughout the lowlands singers sing of your deep, feminine soul; How reclining, you roll down your bed amidst your veils and embankments; They marvel at your fluent, accommodating ways, how you slip through the world, flowing around every obstacle, rounding every edge, and polishing every turn. You compel us, it is true, down to where [...]
Gateway
When I was a young Redbirds fan, bouncing from coast to coast, I learned that I could pick up KMOX, Jack Buck, and Mike Shannon just about anywhere at night, though never in California. When once I was a child in the west I was looking east, and when a child in the east I [...]
phone, revisited.
phone (fon) Informal—n. A telephone. —v. phoned, phoning. To call or transmit by telephone. Please accept my apology for having stooped so low, resorting to quotations. Take heart: I don’t cite authority lightly, but that phenomenon that’s femi-nine— ambiguity demands one be specific with one’s sources of information. I’m sure it’s nothing there’s just a [...]
Daena
Verses celebrating Daena, that celestial maiden of ancient Iran; symbol of faith and conscience. … This is largely plagiarized from the Vendidad (Fargard 19) and Hadhokht Nask, employing some degree of arbitrary license. ♦—♦—♦ At the end of the third night, when the dawn appears, it seems to the soul of the faithful one as [...]