Relinquishing the Eleventh Hour
April 18, 2018With solemn tenderness You apportioned our times and seasons (While Eden embroidered itself with emeralds), And marble campanile chimed a day Into a thousand years.
With solemn tenderness You apportioned our times and seasons (While Eden embroidered itself with emeralds), And marble campanile chimed a day Into a thousand years.
I was six. I wheeled Grandpa’s milk cans out to wait like patient soldiers for the cheese truck. I strutted in a new red and blue corduroy cowboy suit.
I keep diaries in my head At night I write on sealed pages In dream codes a sort Of dot-dot-dash Morse himself
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That fine white burst of bush blossom Has come again. Blast ing through the winter crust And scattering the afterbirth of spring,
The eyes of the beasts shine into my own. The archangel’s hair is on fire. I stumble through the mudprints of cows and ewes toward the damp side of the cave
1937 Christ through a troubled world drags his cross, Wishful that on this his birthday night Someone gentle toward his message might Offer him sanctuary. But in a lost Cause his back breaks. Eyes […]
The shop smelled of wood’s death-scent released, by the carpenter’s skill, in the spring breeze: nature spread across the afternoon
New grain, you are comely; Long, straight, supremely vernal. Standing in Earth’s sun Unashamed green, You sway.
[…] winter they had to borrow our hoard: seven dollars from me and five from my sister. Our days were the usual homemade loaves, peaches we’d bottled, our own half-beef in the locker,