“The uncle never mentions / his nephew / in the casual back-alley banter
Author: Joe 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).
S3E15 Sojourners, Oaks
“Your offspring will sojourn. / They will wander and be enslaved.”
S314 Abram and Sarai Talk Theology, Mirroring
“When I say the word / mother / you think of your own”
“It can go both ways: / the Hebrew can enslave / the Egyptian.”
S3E13 Bill and Ted and Bram
“Perhaps the first world was as ordinary / as a trip to the dentist:”
S3E12 POV
“Pen in hand, I bloody the page / with comments on point of view.”
S3E11 Babel
“The memory of flood / still lingering, / they build a tower, climbing /
to the heavens / where God’s waters / cannot reach.”
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.”
