As the name implies, the Holy Ghost makes me holy, me, at every shake and rattle of the brain at night, red-faced in the nothingness, sooty-eyed after fire-dreams. I awake to pray. My dreams are the desolations of an upside-down closet, inverted living room, wherever I frequent in the usual course of days and nights. … Continue reading
Author Archives: AJ
another excerpt
(I know I was supposed to be writing daily poems, but I was bowled over by books! Graham Greene, Flannery O’Connor, Pagnol, Amos Oz—to name a few. Here’s a couple of stanzas from a long poem I’m working on. This is from a section entitled “LOVE.”) But in his dreams he putters in another province … Continue reading
envelope poems 2.7.2018
a phone number given to a kind stranger, a cat’s shadow, stalking the night, sprung upon a wall—two small terrors if you are too small to understand the size, or two delights if you dare to bring yourself closer. Continue reading
envelope poems 2.5.2018 & 2.6.2018
2.5.2018 an arrangement of flowers, a bricolage of color painting a silk scarf. a black peacoat, tan brogues, turquoise baubles, foreign like leaves around my neck. I feel beautiful but also as if I have borrowed all this from a friend 2.6.2018 Ghosts come out of the mist-work, take on bodies and reenact a … Continue reading
envelope poems 2.4.2018
The smell of bread, a violin bow quick on a solo, the expectation of a thing too great, or at least the desire for tomorrow-day, revealed and uncoiled before us, for there is so much to explain. But first, the bread which will be broken; the song which will redound to the knowledge as yet … Continue reading
envelope poems 2.3.2018
No poem for today; there wasn’t time enough to sit and think of language or things the world might speak of. Continue reading
envelope poems 2.2.2018
awaking late, I sit down to read the Word. My eyes languid walk over the pages, like sleepwalkers. I read of the resurrection body but latch onto the phrase “for star differs from star in glory” and wonder if Paul saw the cosmos in a clouded vision and God broke his pride by comparing his size with the span … Continue reading
