Category: Poetry
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› Read more: Hosting the Lord of Hosts
Hosting the Lord of Hosts
I am not a natural host, as the domestic arts are usually not my strong suit. It takes work for…
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› Read more: The Dew Drinkers
The Dew Drinkers
I did not know what dry was until we moved to San Diego in the middle of a multiple-year draught.…
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› Read more: June Gloom and Lingering Heaviness
June Gloom and Lingering Heaviness
It’s been a week, a week that feels like a year. A week since helicopters hovered all night over our…
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› Read more: When Sidewalks Scream
When Sidewalks Scream
The binary tendency innate in my children is being blown to bits this week. Children have a tendency to draw…
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› Read more: Spiritual Angioplasty
Spiritual Angioplasty
I came into this week thinking it would be a normal one (as normal as a week during Covid in…
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› Read more: The Maker of Melanin
The Maker of Melanin
To my friends who are people of color, I hate that it takes cell phone footage for me to begin…
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› Read more: The Year the World was Weaned
The Year the World was Weaned
The world is being weaned right now. Weaned off of consumerism, weaned off of unprecedented liberties and freedoms, weaned off…
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› Read more: Truth to a Twig
Truth to a Twig
“It is not enough to remember. We must hear it again. Prayer is the act in which we hear it…
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› Read more: The Happiest Handkerchief
The Happiest Handkerchief
Strangely enough, our kids were most excited to find toilet paper among their few Easter prizes at the end of…
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› Read more: Borrowed
Borrowed
“Here comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail, hippity, hoppity, Easter’s on its way.” I remember singing that as…
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