Sunday we lay hands on a girl of ten hand on hand on cornsilk hair. We sing the secret language sung the day the tin roof of the tower beat on God’s floorboard he got cramp in heaven. Like our crying and our fornicating so close to his...
I used to pretend to believe in God. Mainly, I liked so much to talk to someone in the dark. Think of how far a voice must have to travel to go beyond the universe. How powerful that voice must...
God come on stop cutting me out of your photos God stop dragging the mouse around my shopworn body like a chalk outline then clicking fill with background God I know
that times are tight I know you only made one death per person I’m sorry to...
It wanes into wrechednes, þe welth of þis worlde. Robes and ritches rotes in dike, Prowde payntyng slakes into sorow, Delites and drewryse stynk sal ful sone, Þair golde and þaire tresoure drawes þam til dede. Al...
Now let us praise Heaven-Kingdom's guardian, the Maker's might and his mind's thoughts, the work of the glory-father—of every wonder, eternal Lord. He established a beginning. He first shaped for men's sons Heaven as a roof, the holy Creator; then middle-earth mankind's guardian, eternal Lord, afterwards prepared the...
Ah blessed absence of God, How lovingly I am bound to you! You strengthen my will in its pain And make dear to me The long hard wait in my poor body. The nearer I come to you, The more wonderfully and abundantly God comes upon me, In...
God speaks to the soul And God said to the soul: I desired you before the world began. I desire you now As you desire me. And where the desires of two come together There love is perfected.
The rain falling on a night in mid-December, I pull to my father’s engine wondering how long I’ll remember this. His car is dead. He connects jumper cables to his battery, then to mine without looking in at me and the child. Water...
Think not, when the wailing winds of autumn Drive the shivering leaflets from the tree,— Think not all is over: spring returneth, Buds and leaves and blossoms thou shalt see.
Think not, when the earth lies cold and sealed, And the weary birds above her...
Since Love is shivering in the ice and cold, since hoarfrost and snow have ringed him round, who will come to his aid? Water! Earth! Air! No, Fire will! Since the Child is assailed by pains and ills and has no breath left to face his woes, who will come to his aid? Fire! Earth! Water! No,...
Love has stained my body to the color of the One Who Holds Up Mountains. When I dressed in the world's five fabrics, I only played hide and seek— For disguised though I was, the Lifting One caught me. And seeing his beauty, I offered...