I’m a pile of bones,
clattering, too loud for a jaunt through the desert.
Fold me up, a wooden marionette,
put me in the chest with the other
old toys and scrapbooks.
Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb,
Now leaves His well-belov’d imprisonment,
There He hath made Himself to His intent
Weak enough, now into the world to come;
But O, for thee, for
The current is an idea more than a force, a shared wishing
that can pull the waves this way & that, the shells below
vibrating in their indecision. You surfed the Panama Canal
The summer before my senior year of college, a friend from my hometown threw a
massive party, the only purpose of which was to gather as many of our classmates
as possible from
Loving God, at such a troubled time we turn to you. We lament the senseless
deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and so many others and the pain
that their parents,