don’t lie to metell me something true’cause i’m only freewhen i look at YouYou look so good it hurtsand Love, i come undone.don’t paint my facei need to see the scarsso i don’t forgetthe back of my Tutor’s arm’cause i just can’t keep it straightwhich kills and which one saves’cause the truth is i need […]
Read moreWhen I came, why was there no one?When I called, why was there no one to answer?Was my arm too short to ransom you? Do I lack the strength to rescue you?Because the Sovereign Lord helps me, I will not be disgraced.Therefore I have set my face like flint, and I know I will not […]
Read moreMary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. They asked her, ‘Woman, why are you crying?’ They have taken my Lord away,’ she said, […]
Read more(i can’t say entirely what it is but i could watch it again and forever i think maybe it’s the singer’s voice (so gentle) or the views of San Fransisco (we were there once for a blissful time in 2002) or the intense angles of the roads in that city so far away from here […]
Read moreTonight at the end of lightTonight, I feel lonelyI thought I heard my heart stop beatingI long for you to hold me I guess I feel like EdenThe twilight tried it’s bestTonight I feel good and evilAgainst my chest Would I love you less or betterIf I didn’t miss your faceRead your words like a […]
Read moreIt rained for most of Friday, and yesterday the weather played games with us. It was warm in the morning, and I took my walk in short sleeves with a rain jacket tied around my waist. It was still warm when we all left the house at eleven, but it was cold when we came […]
Read moreHuman beings must be known to be loved, but Divine beings must be loved to be known.-Blaise Pascal Do you think so?
Read moreIn January in this part of North Carolina, the morning temperature might be 18 degrees. It might also be 40, or higher still. You never know. In January the sun stays fairly low all day, never rising above the tops of the trees that hem our backyard. Its light is pale and earnest, falling into […]
Read moreWe’ve been spending our evenings in Middle Earth these last days. In the throes of thesis writing this past semester, I decided I longed to revisit it. Bill and I had seen the movies (at least once) when they appeared one by one a few years ago, and gradually collected them all on dvd. Over […]
Read morefrom spiralling ecstatically thisproud nowhere of earth’s most prodigious nightblossoms a newborn babe:around him,eyes–gifted with every keener appetitethan mere unmiracle can quite appease–humbly in their imagined bodies kneel(over time space doom dream while floats the wholeperhapsless mystery of paradise)mind without soul may blast some universe to might have been,and stop ten thousand starsbut not one […]
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