i thank Thee, uncreated Son that Thou didst deign to shine within the darkness of my soul and warm my heart with Thine i thank Thee, ever-endless One Who left Thy holy throne to take my evanescent frame and wear it as Thine own i thank Thee, Living Water sweet Whose life Thou freely gave…
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hours
go seek Him in the country
go find Him by the way
go see that in your night has dawned
the light of endless day
matins
wake up, the sun is risen wake up, the night is done wake up, for sorrow’s ended wake up, for joy is won wake up, in love He suffered wake up, in love He bled wake up, the Hero conquered wake up, the dragon’s dead wake up, the sea is gleaming wake up, the sky’s…
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angel-promised, prophet-seen God-Man born to die … and now nothing is the same
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sometimes i forget what Your name means, o Emmanuel, God with us. it rolls off the tongue easily as a lesson learned by a little child — a foreign word made familiar, innocuous, even, by frequent use. but God — the Consuming Fire the Beginning and Endless eternally in present tense the Speaker into being…
Read Morelove enough for everything
once more, i sit down to write You; once more, i don’t know what to say. i’ve been thinking about words like love, enough and everything and wondering if i even know what they mean. love has begun to feel like a fight to the death, and i am still not good at dying. You…
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here
i am trying to write this poem for You as once more we prepare to mark Your birth but this year the words are slow to come so often on this trip around the sun my pendulum has swung from rage to ecstasy and back again — i forget how i feel in between until…
Read Moreexiled
every bone longs for home every pore, every cell every corpuscle bustling through our veins every ache reminds of what should have been every pang recounts what should not be but, for now, is — and into this You were born You, little serpent slayer entered the world in the way of all humans exiting…
Read Moreweight and age
my house has been creaking and groaning lately joints stiffened, spine misaligned old wounds throbbing with the shift in the weather for the first time i noticed a silver thread among the cowlick hair shocked upright by the scar that arcs down my head it joins the company of others earlier earned i am still…
Read Morestrange sunrise
i looked out the window at the perfect moment one morning to see the sky washed in raspberry-colored clouds as the sun conquered the horizon when i looked back a few minutes later the blaze had faded and the naked trees were stark against a background of gray brilliance swallowed by gloom so it was centuries…
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