“The memory of flood / still lingering, / they build a tower, climbing /
to the heavens / where God’s waters / cannot reach.”
Author: Joseph JP Johnson
Joe lives in Portland. He writes. Some of it is good. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing through the Rainier Writing Workshop (at Pacific Lutheran University).
S3E10 Inside, Brother Sons
“From inside from the dark
creature stench the slime
of creeping things
Inside with the relentless rocking”
From In Beginning: Poems
S3E09 Euphemism
“The scriptures use idioms / but apart from phrases / shaped by sheltering translators /
they have little room / for euphemism.”
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S3E08 Consensus, Humanity, Hide and Seek
“The ambiguity of / ‘and the eyes of them both / were opened’ / leaves me questioning.”
S3E07 Fruit
“Maybe it was Milton or Caedmon who / first claimed the Tree of Knowledge held apples.”
Originally published at the Purpled Nail.
S3E06 Tilling
“The earth, / in its own way, / lay wild and waste / without the worker.”
S3E05 Seventh Day
“It all resolves like a sentence / punctuated. / So soon / into the book of beginnings—”
S3E04 The Lesser Light
“The Giant Impact Hypothesis / theorized that the moon / was a fragment—”
