Written by hand and by typewriter

The Prodigal Poet

A collection of poems and a journal of returning — to verse, to the page, and to the sacred in the everyday.

The poems

All poems
On Your Shoulders

On Your Shoulders

A typed meditation on icy mornings, labor, and the strength that bears us up.

Mount Zion

Mount Zion

A haiku on proxy work: salvation on mount Zion.

Pesach

Pesach

A Passover haiku: the lamb's blood opens death's sealed door.

Emblems

Emblems

A typed meditation on manna, the lamb, and the sacrament.

Fireflies I

Fireflies I

A typed lyric from the woods: fireflies, a burning bush, and a silvan symphony.

From the journal