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Tag Archives: Cosmic Eggshells
These Gates
this saffron thread set down within our undistilled winter – unwound its color, stretched yawning against us. will we amble, then, through these gates into a temporary place; wash our hands of in-transient things? a singularity of echo rails against the groundswell, the urban emptiness un- disturbed, as if this garden of brass remains untroubled [...]
Madhur Meets Her Husband
A Pantoum (in trochaic pentameter) Rooftops slid off into darkness, brooding. Madhur let her hair down, softly weeping. “Is there more than this?” the rains alluding, Honey on her lips a secret keeping. Madhur let her hair down, softly weeping. Slipped into the arms of love so tender, Honey on her lips a secret keeping, [...]
A Lamentation and A Prayer
O Father God, the world thinks it has no need of you. I think they are wrong. For it is not really you that they reject, but the caricatures of you that are painted in black and white by some who claim to know you. I think that I know you, but only in glimpses [...]
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Portraits of the Northern California Coast
I. Stonehouse These hills so burnished by the piercing gold Rays that thread and sew the fog in patches, Are such that I’ve already reminisced And long for, tho’ I’ve never really known them; Barren granite, honey-combed and angry, Salt-shorn rocky faces cleft by breezes, Quilted ice-plant bedding, swollen tongues Lapping at the surface of [...]
A Eucharistic Prayer for Justice (long version)
Written in 2005 for use at my parish. Please feel free to use as you wish and as your Bishop has permitted. But let me know! The people remain standing. The Presider faces them and sings or says May God be with you. People And also with you. Presider Lift up your hearts. [...]
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A Dream of Hanuman
Om Sri Hanumate Namah Karekin M Yarian, August 2006 Drowned within the monsoon air-blush, Symphonic crush of petals, swirling Above the tongue-chant, rushing, I Flush delirious at the scent of you, winged Monkey-warrior-boy, languid against me Resting. Your wind-breath gnarls this Smear-garden of color, your eternal tail restraining, In a tender bondage, coiled. I, time [...]
Big Sur
Soft, sunlit afternoon, our serpentine Negotiation of the coastal route Ascending past the lighthouse at Point Sur Toward Nepenthe’s sweet intoxication, We drove with Mahler’s Fifth, a celebration Of a sort – a palliative to our Carmel. Such sanguine calm, such extraordinary Warmth that radiated through the treetops With the blazing of that great concordant [...]
Elegy to Dust and Dried Roses
(dedicated to my mother) I never saw a rose before the age Of twelve in spite of all the rolling hills, The hopeless green of Pennsylvania farms. We left an emptiness behind to seek An antidote, safe haven from her pain; A marriage dead, the rattle dying still In silent scorn, betrayal, loneliness. Who knew [...]
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