Poems, Psalms, and Prayers

     When Lynne saw the lizard floating in her mother-in-law’s swimming pool, she jumped in. And when it wasn’t breathing, its body limp as ...

    Cook a large fish—choose one with many bones, a skeleton you will need skill to expose, maybe the flying silver carp that's invaded ...

    The lengthening shadows of the cedar trees Have blended into twilight, and the sun  Has plunged in glorious gold precipitance  Beyond t...

When you leave a Real City, as Gertrude Stein did, and go to  Oakland, as she did, you can say, as she did, there is no there, there.  When...

Not in the streets, not in the white streets Nor in the crowded porticoes Shall we catch You in our words, Or lock You in the lenses of our...

     On humming rubber along this white concrete, lighthearted between the gravities of source and destination like a man halfway to the moo...

The Ten Lepers, Jorge Cocco Sántangelo        (Luke 17:11-19) Ten shattered bodies cried out for mercy. Quaking voices carried across distan...

Hunger, Walter Ufer, 1919      Acknowledgement for the Land  standing as able       adapted from   All Saints’ Church, Minneapolis   Presid...