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Window Dressing

          Window Dressing Some sofa Christians think the Trinity Is an old upholstering firm.  The father, The sleeping partner in infinity, Has pretty much retired.  He would rather Forget that butcher shop which was his past And dream away in silk senility, Abandon...

Why He Can Intervene; Hezekiah Brings Evil: Paired Sonnets

      Why He Can Intervene Did God extend Himself,  . . . stretch . . . to create The universe?  Since He was everywhere Throughout the endless vacuum sans date Defined by blackest agate depths of space, He actually elected to withdraw His nth infinitude and folded up...

Oracles

                    Oracles Some trees stand like a trance, so self-possessed It seems a sacrilege to clutter their Immense  tranquility  with hungry nest Or whispered roots like tangled dreams or hair. These trees, like pregnant women, dazzle facts. These limbs...

Cremation

                         Cremation Our future ashes will well symbolize The waste heap we have made of myths we shared; And  yet, though cinders say that flames have flared, Our past doomed heat—with all which that implies. Our embers will be cold, and represent The...

Mutant

                    Mutant My heart has now evolved a beak, but not For melody or kisses.  In a shell This mouth has formed that you and fate forgot To show how organs gnaw escape from hell. My heart has engineered itself a new Integument, but not a brilliant case As...