“The memory of flood / still lingering, / they build a tower, climbing /
to the heavens / where God’s waters / cannot reach.”
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“The memory of flood / still lingering, / they build a tower, climbing /
to the heavens / where God’s waters / cannot reach.”
“From inside from the dark
creature stench the slime
of creeping things
Inside with the relentless rocking”
From In Beginning: Poems
“The scriptures use idioms / but apart from phrases / shaped by sheltering translators /
they have little room / for euphemism.”
“The ambiguity of / ‘and the eyes of them both / were opened’ / leaves me questioning.”
“Maybe it was Milton or Caedmon who / first claimed the Tree of Knowledge held apples.”
Originally published at the Purpled Nail.
“The earth, / in its own way, / lay wild and waste / without the worker.”
“It all resolves like a sentence / punctuated. / So soon / into the book of beginnings—”
“The Giant Impact Hypothesis / theorized that the moon / was a fragment—”