Friday, September 24, 2021

Secrets of a Loud Shout

How do we ask You For the strength to be so still As a tree of life?   As Blessed Mother, Docile as the garden earth To the husbandman.   Look at us spinning; Gazing on Your blessed Cross, My heart is dizzy.   Seeking knowledge so Serves to remind me only Love pierces the...

The Rational Shrimp (PART 2) (2020 dream)

I was up late the night of the day I awoke a shrimp to the use of human reason. To get my mind off things, I decided to go to school for anthropology.          Four years later I was spelunking the recently unveiled Mayan caves in the forests of Guatemala and Yucatan....

Monday, September 13, 2021

On My Way Out from the Town Wall's Gate

On my way out from the town wall's gate,The welcomest words draw my ears on—What my angel never fails to say—From heaven to heaven to God:Truth springs forth because I listen;Not because I wish to speak."Thank You, Lord, for this Your good lessonTo write down for all those who seek."But it was an angel...

The Rational Shrimp (PART 1) (2016 dream)

In the winter of twenty-sixteen    One the oddest things happened to me;On a break of a rare sunny day,    Parked my feet in the lot 'hind Ocean State,    Where the semi-trucks take their tea.    It was unusually warm for February, so I took a walk through...

Old Drawings 3

Dressing the Queen for the Ball. Same time as most of the other random shape drawings. Something I for some reason drew twice in high school...