The conflict between the God of religious worship and the god of philosophical inquiry has plagued Judeo-Christian theology since the union of Greek philosophy with Hebrew religion in the first centuries of the Christian era.…
In the last days of summer
we walk through tall grass
to the river
long before the sun spills
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The Hawaiians are surprised that we also had beaches.
In their minds we represent one vast igloo
Filled with people anxious to escape
To winter in Hawaii.
As you enter the water unsinning,
I shall repent eight years
Of watching in the dark and loving
Without turning on the light.
Like the sound of laying the warp, whispered names
resonate within the grained, muraled, marble
and curtain walls of this holy place, and veil
the light and air with your form, hands
She was my great-aunt on my father’s side and I hated her. She was fat. I She used two long crochet hooks to tie her shoes. Everybody knew it. Unless, of course, I was around.…
I guess it wasn’t really much of a river, only thirty feet wide or so where it had enough fall to ripple over the rocks. Except during the spring runoff. Then it filled and sometimes…