Culture

. Let’s Just Say A friend of ours was asked by some reporter how he viewed the war his only...

. The Drift of Dark Days November is a time for us to grieve About the dying of the warmth...

  In Advent Stillness In Advent stillness and its purpled nightsWe turn within and with a solemn gazeConsider well our...

. Motherly Motives ---of the 5% of American women with 5 or more children The greater good is motherhood. Let...

. Telepathy Your reticence to speak is no deterrent To my delight to be in your vicinity--- Presence and chatter...

. Dragons Lost at Sea In salty seas green dragons fly the waves, With plastic scales—a man-made guard from rot....

. I No Longer See It on Mulberry Street I used to walk home from school each day, then report...

. Notre Dame Re-Opens To touch this holiness we have no right, Nor did we earn the privilege to restore...

. Offerings of the Heart A Symbolic Poem . The songs of Yamato From seeds of healing sprout As offerings...

. Fake Sales “Fifty Percent Off”The store signs all say,But I have to scoff---There is simply no wayThat the clothes...

. Meditation on Herbert’s “Church Monuments” "…Mark, here below, How tame these ashes are, how free from lust, That thou...

. Meditation 1 “Grace has drawn nigh to mouths, once blasphemous, and has made them harps; sounding praise.” ---Homily on...

. American Espionage and the Soviet Target I was assigned to Russia as an Army attaché— A legal spy who...

. Lamb and Lion God spoke and caused a great commotion, putting time and space in motion. Nothing is now,...

. Fair Game on Thanksgiving Day Please tell me if you think I’ve crossed a line by unremittingly abusing you...

. Election Correction Newsome, Whitmer, Pritzker, Hockel, Murphy Have a strange idea of how things should be. Then, of course,...

. Samhain Behind the turning leaves a red-breast peeks,In light dim-lit by mists on Samhain dawn;The earth is churned by...

. The Lop-Sided House A lop-sided house on the edge of a cliff; A family trying so hard to be...

. Talk Around the Urn In our Sunday best, on folding chairs, We solemnly talk around the urn; A tear,...

. A Vacillating Villanelle On Perception  "Understanding the world for a man is reducing it to the human, stamping it...

. Truth Streaked Across the Sky Truth streaked across the skyAlighting on a foreign strand,Where politicians buried itBeneath the lying...

. Sailing to Illusium Unheralded, the ancient oracle Appears and disappears, pronounce announcing Creaturely mortality while singing Dirges under breath;...

. First Pick Flamingo They used to call this player the flamingo; They chaffed and mocked; they were full of...

. Jehu Destroys the Temple and Statue of Baäl "—What did that madman want?" ---2 Kings 9:11 He saw Jehu...

. The Ghosts of Altamira ---a meditation A herd of prehistoric bison; blood beliefs Depicted in concentric whorls with prints...

. For the Sake of Ten Thousand: A Supplication from New Sodom And Abraham came near and said, ‘Would You...

. O Lord, Let Me Not Fall O Lord, let me not fall today, I pray, Not in some vague...

. "Sometimey” People Sometimes he’s quite responsive, Sometimes he disappears. Sometimes he’s downright friendly, Sometimes he switches gears. Sometimes he’s...

. Contra Computerdom I hold this fountain pen with thumb and fingers, burgundy barrel, gold and rhodium nib, Montblanc white-sea-star...

. Horse Figurine —one inch by one point nine inch, 32,000 to 35,000 years before Giacometti's famous horse   A hallowed...

. Guy Fawkes Night Makeover November 5th! To Guy Fawkes let’s be kind--- no burning him in effigy this year....

. Polarities The only certain solidarity among the Self-Reliant is the ease with which their pride in insularity is spoken...

. Loose Me! “Loose him, and let him go.” ---John 11.44 O loose me, Jesus! Jesus, set me free from...

. Fall Back: Central Standard Time Already it is dark: the falling arc Of each advancing year, when the eager...

. Lady Gwyn  I hear the scratching of a claw--- A disembodied monkey’s paw Scraping at decaying bones. I feel...

. Elisha's Bones II Kings 4:32–37, 13:20–21 Elisha died, the prophet doubly strong In spirit, and his sepulcher was grand,...

. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5zId3BCl6M . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His epic-in-progress, Legends of...

. Where Babylonic Rivers Flowed after Psalm 137, a lament at the destruction of Jerusalem Where Babylonic rivers flowed We...

. Prayer as an Antidote for Unbelief Just imagine if, while you’re entreating the sky, You were met with the...

. The Venetian Doge on the Sack of Constantinople Setting: Constantinople in the Summer of 1204 AD. Doge Enrico Dandolo...