All this Hope

The hope of all things is wrapped in deficiencies and risings, barren winters and promising springs of survival, in soft-spoken…

The Last Years

This year has swallowed, gulped you down whole The crafting of a body and an etching of a soul through…

Oh, Wait

oh honey you turn out burn out churn out. It’s okay. You won’t forever be last harassed miscast surpassed. It…

Mind and Body

I hear and listen, but then I walk away gone I stoop down to help with an offering hand, but…

To teach

  My students have filtered into my classroom the past few days, taking to their seats, reciting timelines and catechisms…

Am I the Pharisee

It was the Pharisees who shouted from beneath their heavy oral tradition at Jesus for healing on the Sabbath, for…

Black Sheep

Jesus told them to lift their eyes. When you walk through a forest do you curl your face downward and…

Let Us Use Them

As morning classes came to an end, students flipped their large math volumes shut, notebook paper filled with stick figure…

The Shelter of Dying Time

It’s turning on us. Those long, listless, forever days of sunshine and water are disappearing, lavender fields and hydrangea perfuming…