AUGUST LAMENTATION

Lord it’s hot. The words won’t come. It hasn’t rained in weeks, Lord. O Lord have you forgotten us?Down here … More

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I stand beside my window waiting for the call to prayer, waiting like a lover for a glimpse of the … More

I don’t want to be one of those people folded over a cell phone screen like a larva, sucking from … More

Heaven knows I’m not proud of being a meat-eater, but something in me growls and snorts and licks its jowls … More

They say raise your fist, stand in your truth, speak it loud and clear but I can only kneel in … More

O father help me not to stare, wide-eyed, when my brother falls. Help me not to sniff his breath for … More

What is a psalm a poem a prayer
if not a Wall Street ticker tape
our fear spelled out in numbers