-
This thing has feathers. (pinned post)
Tags: UncategorizedYeah, yeah, I misquoted Dickinson. (She wrote, “Hope is the thing with feathers,” not “Hope’s the thing…” But this is a meme I made a while back that isn’t really a meme because it’s not meming, but it does seem, unfortunately, to be evergreen: Feel free to use it if you like, though.
-
Habitus
Read it here on Earth & Altar‘s website Elaine Elizabeth Belz HABITUS Crossing this threshold, I dip my hand in water,re-inscribe my birth. Stolid airushers me in, thick with dustand smoke and resin and with voices, shuffling feet,creaking floorboard and pew—all musicto uncloak my solitude.A votive wick receives my longing, solid bench my hip’s ache.I…
-
Kintsugi – a poem response to a photo by Danny Rebb
Tags: UncategorizedIn 2019 I was invited to participate in the second Call & Response at Grosse Pointe Congregational Church. I brought my poem (which is at this post), and I selected this image from photographer Danny Rebb. (Seriously, go check out his work – he’s quite good.) I had written my dissertation (ProQuest link) – well,…
-
City Centre
Tags: UncategorizedA poem from Call and Response II Streets keep turning upwhere they shouldn’t—unlessmy map’s the wrong way ‘round.It’s useless, anyway; streets hereare unlabeled. (Well,why should they be laden with names?) Back somewhere, the canals misplaced me.Behind them, I’d lost myself in Roman ruins. I’m six time zones offfrom my internal map,with no time to re-center,…
-
40
Welcome to the new iteration of my blog! I’ve decided the next few posts will be poems of mine that have been published in some form elsewhere (with links, where possible, to the elsewhere) along with a little discussion about the poem. Today’s poem is “40.” It’s “published” as a song, actually, by Optimist Park…
-
Full Circle
Today is the second and last time this century that Good Friday and the Feast of the Annunciation fall on the same day. Historically, though, they’re linked. In the earliest centuries of the Church, the death and resurrection of Christ were observed, but Christ’s birth was not. However, the symbolic value of placing Christ’s conception…
The Sound 