“Perhaps the first world was as ordinary / as a trip to the dentist:”
Tag: genesis
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.”
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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.”
