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Ketubah

By punkmonksf | Published: June 18, 2010
Into this offering cup, I gather myself To rest in these, your venerated hands. O my daughter of the barley Harvest, here, on this threshing Floor, where these pearls between us Captured are — even here will I long For the shadows of your heart Stretched out between us my love. O river, O rock! [...]
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A Dream of Flying

By punkmonksf | Published: June 17, 2010
It’s always the same. I dream I’m trying to fly. All kids dream of flying. Except for me, I can never get fully off the ground. In my case, it was a magic carpet, long before I’d heard of Jinn, magic lamps and Alla’din. And I can’t take flight, here’s the catch. I have to [...]
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These Gates

By punkmonksf | Published: June 9, 2010
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 [...]
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Madhur Meets Her Husband

By punkmonksf | Published: June 8, 2010
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, [...]
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A Lamentation and A Prayer

By punkmonksf | Published: June 4, 2010
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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The Baptismal Covenant and our Rule of Life

By punkmonksf | Published: May 27, 2010
Our life in apostolic witness is a full affirmation of our commitment to Baptism. In the community of the baptized that is the church, we are called not to better or more profound commitment to what is asked of us in Baptism, but instead to a visible and more deliberate witness to what the Baptismal [...]
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A Community Gathered

By punkmonksf | Published: May 25, 2010
Oh… how I love my brothers !
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Portraits of the Northern California Coast

By punkmonksf | Published: May 21, 2010
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 [...]
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A Eucharistic Prayer for Justice (long version)

By punkmonksf | Published: May 17, 2010
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

By punkmonksf | Published: May 13, 2010
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 [...]
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