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Another World

       Another World Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem One world we know about remains unknown. It may be turgid blackness or it could Be wide with spilling light. Perhaps just bone With empty marrow...

What Understanding Does: a Pair of Sonnets

What Understanding Does:  a Pair of Sonnets Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem “Son of man, can these bones live?” ~ Ezekiel 37:3 When faith is in retreat, then scripture reads More beautifully,...

Prophetic Temptation

Prophetic Temptation Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem If only poets could entice the world, If only.  Maybe they would cause the rain To fall in wadis.  Mysteries unfurled By stanzas could obliterate...

Benison

         Benison Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem The first of our own daffodils spread out Today and maybe that bright yellow will Reach wider since the sun is now about And shining on the...

Extremes with Charles

     Extremes with Charles “Time stutters in your arms.  It expands, diaphragm pushing down and out to make room for seconds smoothing into hours.” ~ Jaime Mathis, “Blood Blister,” It Rises and Falls I now invite you each to call up in Your mind the most important...