and let God’s good dirt take me where it will.
Church tradition tells me to count everything
as loss, but I’m not prepared to surrender
myself to the Beeches, Pines, and
“My father died nine days ago,” I told my supervisor at work when the two of us
were out for a connecting walk, a weekly ten minute meeting in the great
outdoors away
The Mysterious Benedict Society, published in 2007, is the first in a series of
children’s books by Trenton Lee Stewart that’s being made into a television show
of the same name,
Before the matchmaker braided our fates
Appa was a romantic, she tells me,
a would-be Jesuit priest—long past now
but some mornings, house dormant, I find him
genuflecting on the tile floor
