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Twisted Shapes of Light
Age and Belief
Ways to Die
Pictures of Katie
Small College, Small Town
Diet of Worms
Sunday Vigil on the Corner
Lunch with the Lord’s Anarchists
Ramblin’ Seth Plays the Red & Black Cafe
The Labyrinth Speaks
Big Bang
The Elders Visit
A Blessing: Eleanor, Lila, Ellen and Mack
The Price of Salvation
The Wise and Foolish Virgins Redux
Touching Abishag
Adam Walks
Elisha and the Limits of Grace
Noah’s Children
Legion’s Farewell to the Gerasenes
Ananias’s Confession
Reach Hither Thy Finger
Feeding the 5000, or How the Gospel Came To Oregon
The Prophet Amos Adds a Postscript
The Last Pasture
Steers in Winter
The Hardness of the Pews
Dairymen at Prayer Meeting
Rain on a Barn South of Tawas
The Witness
God Crazy
Tilly Read of the Dust Bowl
The Sounds That Feed Us
Resurrection
Spring Plowing
The Best Novembers
The Sheep Farmer
Whatever Was Ripe
The Funerals of Poor People
Communion at Union City Mission
For Charlie, in Lucasville Prison
Felon
Why the Laundromat Lady Is So Fat
Thanksgiving
Dust of the Gods
Sermon for a Monday
The Art of Augury
The Way We Live with Sorrow
Online Registration for Fall Term
From Where I Stood
Family Band at Union Gospel Mission
The Fuse Box
The Least We Owe
Leaf Fall
When the Children Go Away
Pilgrims’ Road
The Garden Again
Acknowledgments
The Poiema Poetry Series
Poems are windows into worlds; windows into beauty, goodness, and truth; windows into understandings that won’t twist themselves into tidy dogmatic statements; windows into experiences. We can do more than merely peer into such windows; with a little effort we can fling open the casements, and leap over the sills into the heart of these worlds. We are also led into familiar places of hurt, confusion, and disappointment, but we arrive in the poet’s company. Poetry is a partnership between poet and reader, seeking together to gain something of value—to get at something important.
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and I believe was as easy to say as yes yes yes.
His arms spread as wide as the look in His eyes.
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