Faith, Fiction, Friends

Garden: tears of blood, cup of bitterness; the taking and the trial; beating; scourging; the stabbing of thorns; the weight ca...

A line of sight cracks through darkness, finding openings of light, fractions of reality streaming amid a gloom of brokenness. ...

A placid surface an expressionless face a perfunctory smile (Sunday smile) a drawn curtain an ebb tide a portrait, idealized ...

Old shoes, thick laces: toes scuffed, soles worn; belt, braided: waist-stretched, sometimes shrunken; t-shirt: yellow leaning to whit...

An interior conversation in my head, my heart, sometimes a conscious stream of thoughts, words but often a simple solitude bookended b...

A curious combination of ending and beginning: old, dying in darkness, new, birthing in darkness also a shade of light implying neit...

  I wander in a city of refuge, a city affording a certain security, a certain protection one of the three in Canaan Hebron, Shechem...

Chaucer hears it emerging from the French or Germanic or both, recognizing a common root, the Latin perhaps, it has a Roman flavor to it...