Faith
I called faith a gold-trimmed Gospel, a half-note suspension resolved in hymnic harmony, rehearsed prayers punctuated with perfect gasps and laughter, old..
Apophasis
Nothing happens in this room. That is why we come. Pews have ceased to creak beneath their burden. Elders summing up..
Mid-March (early mud season)
Didn’t mean to go this far, but my insistent terrier – all eight pounds – tugs me toward the lumbered steps that..
The dinner party
One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at..
Joseph’s Bones
The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem, in the portion of the land..
How to Not Be Afraid
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea around us.” — Franz Kafka Start by looking at a picture of..
That something that happens
“Between the rupture of life and the rapture of language lies a world of awe and witness.” — Christian Wiman I was..
The Steward of the Underside of the Table
there is nothing for me outside of You. this is the only thing i know. and when i have lost sight of..
The truth of poetry
Nancy Miller Gomez worked first in news broadcasting and then for a reality show, both purporting to be truth-telling genres. But the..
Dancing with words
When I was born, the doctors bound me to a word: “girl.” Perhaps because this word never fit, I became obsessed with..
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