by revd | Nov 17, 2023 | Grace of God
To what serves mortal beauty? Dangerous; does set dancing blood…. What do then? How meet beauty? Merely meet it; own, home at heart, heaven’s sweet gift; then leave, let that alone, Yea, wish that though, wish all, God’s better beauty, grace....
by revd | Mar 27, 2023 | Jesus Christ
When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. And monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, And devil’s walking parody On all four-footed things. The...
by revd | Mar 16, 2023 | Believers
Don’t throw your arms around me in that way: I know what you tell me is the truth – yes I suppose I loved you in my youth as boys do love their mothers, so they say, but all that’s gone from me this many a day: I am a merciless cactus an uncouth wild...
by revd | Feb 7, 2023 | Grace of God
I will not kiss you, country fashion, By hedgesides where Weasel and hare Claim kinship with our passion…. This bare clay-pit is truest setting For love like ours: No bed of flowers But sand-ledge for our petting. The Spring is not our mating...
by revd | Feb 20, 2023 | Believers
Sing a new song to the Lord, sing through the skin of your teeth, sing in the code of your blood, sing with a throat full of earth, sing to the quick of your nails, sing from the knots of your lungs, sing like a dancer on coals, sing as a madman in tongues,...