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The Greatest Marriage Advice Tara and I Have Received
Tara and I really have a sweet marriage because of the greatest marriage advice we’ve received. We really do. There’s a tenderness there, a light-heartedness, that has taken work to build. Is it perfect? No. At the time of writing the first draft of this, last night I snapped at her out of my exhaustion and…
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The Beautiful Complexity of a Tiny Town or ” Break Up in a Small Town is a Beehive Kicked “
People talk often of the busy city street, especially in regard to New York City, assuming this translates to complexity. But cities are simple. An elegance keeps the taco maker in the taco truck, the novelist in his hovel, and the billionaire in his corner office. People I know talk about how they wish they…
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CSA Potluck — from 58 poems written at 29
Ciders spiked and the simmering wild rice that she rendered in a root soup for the CSA staff and Martín as we planned produce. Patience is a talked dialog dance. We drive one another nutso with no thought To listen along out of love for the mind Of fellow men: we fight for time to…
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Evil is My Disease — from 58 poems written at 29
Boethius claimed badness or the wicked Or evil is a disease, even as weakness Wanes the body. Well, then, I Am so sick, my friend. See my shakes? See my quaking? Soothing balms Of wiser words evade my mind And its dreaming machine. A dry and an arid Landscape was seeded along the trenches Of…
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Yoke of the Mother — from 58 poems written at 29
A Queen is a King who carries the weight Of the world within her. Enwombing the younglings And entombing their titles, taking their passings On a pilgrimage or a parade. Powder she spreads — The ashes of embers that echo the flames Of memories marking men and their gains And lovings or leavings. The leftovers…
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A Drizzle in Brooklyn — from 58 poems written at 29
A drizzle in downtown Duenweg is something Like my wife waking and the water of her shower Misting me while I make my chin Clean with the cutting. The crisp mist Is a walk by a wayward water fountain Or a splash pad. Spread the mist Over the evening and aim it at me And…
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Upon Finding Your Old Prison Letters and Prayers — from 58 poems written at 29
It was freezing and fire and filled with the smell Of men who made due with maybe two Pairs of britches and who probably shat One anyways in the evening. Yet over it all You sing your song of something like a hope Or a cosmic comedy, of a careful need To never neuter the…
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Greenwood Cemetery Graves at Snowfall — from 58 poems written at 29
Snow on the stones, salts and ices That garnish the graves. Greenwood waits For the day when dawn doffs the wrappings And garments of granites, the garland of a robe Or a blanket’s mask on the bleak pillars Like condoms or clasps of copper bracelets Or the hood of The Grim. How will their clothing…
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Home — from 58 poems written at 29
You yanked up years of dreaming When they pulled the plug out. Powerful longings — How they flounder in flame. But fleeting are the ways Friction frees us: it frames our pains But tames truth — is the time we spend Bitter a better base for erecting Tomorrow’s morning? Minds fashioned After the evening will ever…
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Do American Christian Missionaries Support the Trump Muslim Ban?
For years, evangelical churches at large have considered the missionary the cherry on top of Sunday. At conferences and weeks of church camp they hold three-step altar calls. Step one, be baptized. Step two, be re-baptized, whatever that means. Step three, enlist in FTVM — Full Time Vocational Ministry. Regarding step three, there’s this hierarchy. First…
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Snow day according to Wm. Paul Young
“A snow day is God’s way of enforcing Sabbath on the world.” — Wm. Paul Young Here are some pictures of our last snow day with our neighbor Tom — who’s a freaking chess grandmaster — our dog Echo (so named because her dad — me — is a narcissistic bastard) and my bride. Also,…
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La La Land analysis : a Humble Rebuke of Hollywood
Tara insisted I go see La La Land with her and I didn’t plan on doing a La La Land analysis, frankly. I wanted to go see the film, enjoy it, and let that be that in keeping with the reticence theme of this year-long social media hiatus. Especially since I have an analysis of Arrival, Dr.…