poetry & lyrics
underdogs
We aren’t athletes—either of us, and we haven’t agreed on much especially when it comes to the stories of god and man, but the warmest remembered ritual he and I still both enjoy is rooting for the underdog until they lose
Wake
My friends Mike Stavlund and Michael Toy have challenged me to join them for National Poetry Writing Month (aka NaPoWriMo), a challenge/experiment to write one poem each day for the month of April. ”It is a way to give oneself permission to write poorly; a way to embrace quantity over quality. But also, to revel in the mystery [...]
Two Christmas Poems
This Christmas here are two poems I’m returning to: “The Invisible Seen” —St. Athanasios (c. 298-373, trans by Scott Cairns) When our dull wits had so declined as to set us mid the squalor of the merely sensible creation, the Very God consented to become a body of His own, that He as one among [...]
