April 23, 2026 For those who don’t know, and I’m sure that’s a majority of people, April is designated National Poetry Month in the USA. Read about it here: https://poets.org/national-poetry-month-30th-anniversary. In honor of this month, the university library in my city invited some local poets, including me, to do a reading yesterday of some ofContinueContinue reading “Pail of Cherries”
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e.e. cummings and Easter
April 5, 2026: Easter Sunday I’ve yet to have gathered the courage to write an Easter poem. Maybe one day. In the meantime, here is one (perhaps) by e.e. cummings whose father left his university job to become the pastor of South Congregational Church in Boston, Massachusetts. cummings himself was influenced by both Christianity andContinueContinue reading “e.e. cummings and Easter”
Holy Saturday: A Poem
April 4, 2026: Holy Saturday, the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday in the Christian tradition. In-Between The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his (Jesus’) body was laid in it. Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested onContinueContinue reading “Holy Saturday: A Poem”
“Good Friday” by Hayden Carruth
April 3, 2026 This Good Friday as I walk a labyrinth while wrens and phoebes twitter from the still-barren oaks and hickories, I find myself surrounded in thought by all of those being crucified this very day: • Those being held in detention centers across the country, not knowing what the next moment will bring;•ContinueContinue reading ““Good Friday” by Hayden Carruth”
Contemplation with Cat
February 21, 2026 In this Lenten season, instead of “giving up,” I’m trying to “give to,” such as giving time to God in meditation, but sometimes a cat assumes it’s a god, too. Contemplation with Cat Dear Cat, who asked you hereinto my time of prayerand up to my empty lap?I did not invite yourContinueContinue reading “Contemplation with Cat”
From Ash to Heart
Ash Wednesday, February 18, 2026 “And we are put on earth a little spaceThat we might learn to bear the beams of love.”William Blake No matter where we’ve lived this past year, we have one experience in common: being knocked off-balance by an American administration that cares only for itself while having our personal freedoms,ContinueContinue reading “From Ash to Heart”
Oh, Canada . . .
February 11, 2026 My American heart grieves for Canada this day, particularly for Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, for its community, and for British Columbia. How I despair to see Canadians experience and feel what so many Americans have had to experience and feel ourselves: the senseless, soul-searing, heartbreak, confusion, anger, and helplessness of unexpected violenceContinueContinue reading “Oh, Canada . . .”
Look to the Stars
February 5, 2026 Over the past two weeks, since the murder of Alex Pretti by ICE “agents” on the streets of Minneapolis, I’ve tried to put my feelings into words, wishing that the bullets that spewed from those guns into Pretti’s back would have moved as slowly as the ink from my pen. I cannotContinueContinue reading “Look to the Stars”
Lamentation: A Poem
January 14, 2026 In memory of Renee Good* and the dozens of others who have been killed by ICE. A Poem of Lamentationafter Psalm 13 How long, God of this present time? How long?Have you turned away from us,forgotten your children?How long must we endure the lies,cruelty, provocations and injusticesinflicted on this country? How longwillContinueContinue reading “Lamentation: A Poem”
A Poem for Epiphany
January 6, 2026 Today marks the occasion of Epiphany, the story told only in the Gospel of Matthew about the magis’ (wise men/kings) visit to the Christ-Child, sometimes titled “Little Christmas,” that brings the Christmas Season to a close in the Western Church. Whether the event is factual had nothing to do with why MatthewContinueContinue reading “A Poem for Epiphany”
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