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My Daughter and God

My wife had time to form a thought: I have killed my daughter.

Mystery, Play and Other Poems

On a scale of 1 to 10, the pain dissolves like a Eucharist wafer.

Narrative 10

I once heard in a sermon, “Choose the important over the urgent.”

Narrative 10

It’s best for my heart to have hours and hours each day to write.

Nasya Krevoshay

It suddenly seemed to her that the world was filled with little miracles. There were moments when love overcame her despair.

Near a Church

I looked into their eyes and loved them, and wished to God I was dead.

Nemecia

My mother was dead. Almost a month she was dead, killed by me.

Neutral Tones

A grin of bitterness swept thereby like an ominous bird a-wing.

Never Say No

If he was going to pick me up, the least he could do was look at me.

Night Watch, 500 BCE

He had seduced them with his sincerity for truth-seeking.

North to Natoma and Other Poems

It’s been months, and the fields are good for nothing but night talks.

Not All of Us Get to Be Ghosts

Standing there in our small shadows, we discuss the ways of the dead.

Not for the Sabbath

When an old man marries a young piece of flesh, she is the ruler.

Nothing More

This is all there is. Nothing else. No heaven and no hell, okay?

Nowhere Man

There’s no way to escape a storm at sea; it hits you, and you can’t hit back.

Observations on Connectivity

Einstein postulated that space and time sit neatly on the same fabric

Occasions of Sin

Goretti was a victim perfect for her time, an icon of Catholic sexual politics.

Ode to Left-Handedness and Other Poems

Fearing for them, I clustered them together, then cut them off.

Odessa, Odessa

It is a city of sea, sun, boulevards, strolling beauties, life-altering food.

Of God and His Enemies

Logic is such an elegant weapon; and religion, such an easy target.

Of Kin and Kind

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house.

of the propoetides

our hands are full of those women tricked or transformed.

Oh

Children, this is what a bad dream looks like, our teacher said.

Oh You Little Faith

What if it does choose, the egg, I mean, her favorite spermatozoon.

Old Stories and Other Paintings

Eros, myth, life, and literature in brilliant paintings by Lincoln Perry.

Old-Time Religion

I light fires in the dark wake of space where you have tarried. Or died.

On Good Resolutions

For my part, I do not want a Happy Christmas: I want a Merry Christmas.

On Nancy Hale’s “Flotsam”

This is a crafty story and things are not what they seem to be.

On Seeing Damien Hirst’s “Kingdom of the Father”

Small valleys and veins give way to a lifted ridge like a rib or an arm bone.

On the Difficulty of Discerning Shapes in the Distance

Warm breath in my ear mouthing a name; rivulet folded back in water.