SONNET
The bridal white of Everest’s lonely peak
has felt the weight of men’s ascending tread,
and captured some, descending slow and weak,
and wrapped them close in cold, forever dead.
The
A Strange Bargain
The fourteenth in the Marvel’s sprawling cinematic universe, Dr. Strange stands
heads above its predecessors in both beauty and brains. The film’s action
sequences boggle the senses, the colors and costumes
Christmas Crow
A bird is trapped in my house, a crow,
a starling. I do not know birds.
And he keeps battering himself
against the windows. Then, like any bird
in a poem or song,
Love Came Down at Christmas
Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, love divine;
Love was born at Christmas,
Star and angels gave the sign.
Worship we the Godhead,
Love incarnate, love divine;
Worship we our Jesus:
Putting Art (back) In Its Place
Gordon College’s Dr. John Skillen is a rare sort of academic: the kind with road
dust on his shoes instead of chalk dust on his elbow patches. As he explains in
the