I see / all and nothing / through xeric eyes: / the paradox of bound vision (...)
This collection of words is from some time in late 2006, with revisions in the Summer of 2007. As a vaguely-relevant side-note, xerophthalmia is a medical term for dry-eyes, for those who are curious. I like the sound of the word, for what it’s worth.
They usually don’t put me in this office. Andrew said it’s because of space issues that I’m lodged in here today, waiting ever-so patient…
When under the ray of a single bulb / A stripe of light lays along her cheek
a reunion with an old friend stirs me.
I remember the homeless poem I promised to write. / How the homeless haunt me…
Written for a poetry challenge on Open Salon. 57 As they were going along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” 58 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” Luke 9:57-58 NRSV
Turn off the lamp. / A man / In all he was meant to be / Steps timidly into the brilliance /
In memory of a wonderful mentor and friend. I lived in his family with his wife and 6 kids and various others for many years. Learning to grow in my faith and in my personhood. He died as he lived, caring for others (in a supermarket shootout.)
every night / he lights them / peppering orange / onto dark city streets warming night’s blackness / one flame at a time casting evi…
what happens when you don’t have any flyscreens
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