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Poetry Month 2023 Post #11: “My Four Sisters”

April is #NationalPoetryMonth and I am posting a Poem-A-Day. Today’s post is a version of a poem I wrote in 2011. I am posting it today because today is the 64th birthday of my oldest sister, Allison Truly Mount, who died when she was 14 months old. My Four Sisters one shimmers as memory shatters and scatters what could have been smiling from a buttery picture at the top of the stairs first in a line of all girls five if you count the living and the dead next one with surprising red curly locks she unearthed genetics no one … Read the full post

Poetry Month 2023 Post #10: “Morning Poetry”

April is #NationalPoetryMonth and I am posting a Poem-A-Day. Today’s post is a short poem written during one of the early mornings of my sabbatical last summer. Morning Poetry Every morning is poetry Dew emerging or descending Suggestion in the still anticipation Beautiful dark embrace recedes Sonnets and symphonies erupt The magnitude of turning burning time and light makes its claim on us again.

Poetry Month 2023 Post #9: “Seeing Home”

April is #NationalHistoryMonth and I am posting a Poem-A-Day. I wrote this one recently. And in honor of Easter I am making room for the new ways love is showing up. And the way a rabbit taught me how to see home. Seeing Home Years ago, another family ago, another container of home this land included pet rabbits, living with chickens, near the horses down the slope of yesterdays. They built coops and hutches with wooden doorways and horseshoe latches. I walk by each morning and briefly imagine what was and what could be. This habitat artifact a daily practice … Read the full post

Poetry Month Post #8: “Holy Saturday’s Song”

April is #NationalPoetryMonth and I am posting a Poem-A-Day. All of the poems I am posting are poems I have written, mostly in the last year. The poem for today is one I wrote in 2013 on Holy Saturday. I have shared it on my website before. Holy Saturday’s Song Today, brothers and sisters of the Jesus-named faith, You must stop and hear the still of death The Holy One takes in no oxygen and blood does not flow Flesh grown cold Still, you and I, be still If you must move, let it be a mourning dance If you … Read the full post

Poetry Month 2023 Post #7: “Death”

April is #NationalPoetryMonth and I am posting a Poem-A-Day. In my faith tradition, today is a day of remembering the story of Jesus’ execution by the Roman government. So, death is what we sit with today. I wrote this poem this past Fall. Death Death is not a moment she is a field, a reverse force They are a part of life Always in conversation with breath, with beating heart Death is not a stop or a start He hovers, he waits, he meanders Death titrates and gyrates A centrifuge, a deluge a trickle of loss, of letting go They … Read the full post

Poetry Month 2023 Post #6: “Boundaries: A Poem Drawn from the Well of Jacob”

April is #NationalPoetryMonth and I am posting a Poem-A-Day. Today’s poem is another sermon I preached at Grace Covenant during this lenten season. You can find it on the Feminism and Religion website where I am a quarterly contributor. The poem is “Boundaries: A Poem Drawn from the Well of Jacob” Read Poem on the Feminism and Religion website

Poetry Month 2023 Post #5– “Tempted: A Poem in Countless Jagged Parts”

April is #NationalPoetryMonth and I am posting a Poem-A-Day. This is a poem about Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness. I preached this poem as my sermon on the first Sunday of Lent. Tempted: A poem in countless jagged parts You know when a story starts at the end And backs into the pieces that begin again And again and again That’s when you know the story is true That’s when you know the story is you And more than about you, it’s about the gall Of this universe to tell all, to tell Nothing–to expect us to make sense From … Read the full post

Poetry Month 2023, Post #4: “Poetry”

April is #NationalPoetryMonth and I am posting a Poem-A-Day. This is a poem about poetry that I wrote last Fall after my sabbatical. I was missing the time and space to write poetry every day that I had over the summer. Poetry My poetry is friendship a companion of spirit and consequences truth acquifers that gush with sentience, lifeforce the viscera of being truly alive. My poetry is mystery she hides, she waits, she abides in deep forest wells a divining rod moves over the ground and there she says sit with me again And let your earth home speak … Read the full post

Poetry Month 2023 Post #3: The Wrens

April is #NationalPoetryMonth and I am posting a Poem-A-Day. The birds bring joy to these burgeoning days of Spring. And the wrens are hard at work. The Wrens Please whisper while the wrens build, nesting their instinctive hope in this barn sliver, this day of all days. They elevate, collaborate, construct with detritus and debris, the stuff that makes a home around here. I watch and feel the magnitude of their tiny connection. Mated for life. Builders of new nest after new nest after new nest the spotted eggs are feeding their impulses to make this place safe enough for … Read the full post

Poetry Month 2023, Post #2: Death By Drowning

During National Poetry Month I am posting a poem a day. Today’s post is “Death By Drowning,” a poem I wrote last summer. Today at 10:06am I found him belly up only a little bloated water his deep dark grave. Turn the bucket over Talk gently “How long have you been in here, friend?” Turn him over his final rest decomposing leaves, Poison Ivy canopy Sets off the blue The day before he died the Supreme Court ruled people like me unprotected corpses Inseminated uterai wards of the state Crouched over death I honor the smallest slippery life Birthing with … Read the full post

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