Panic Attack on the Morning of My Eighty-Third Non-birthday
By Poetry Issue 120
Death sitting bored there, yawning. All that jive.
Read MoreCrackers
By Essay Issue 120
I am most excited about the exotic delight of oyster crackers, a delicacy I’ve eaten only in this basement at the annual Hebron Lutheran Church Oyster Supper.
Read MoreRecalled
By Poetry Issue 120
Had Lazarus been in hell,
surely Jesus would have left him there.
Lent 2023
By Poetry Issue 120
I will become, dust
Read MoreOn the Probability of Christ’s Delight in Our Boys Occasionally Whacking People with Their Fronds During Palm Sunday Mass
By Poetry Issue 120
Perhaps our sons are signs, agitating the distracted
to gaze at the frescos restored to the apse
Paradigm Shift
By Visual Art Issue 120
I was confronted with the reality that a perfect church could not exist, that the leaders that I had grown up revering were flawed and very human.
Read MoreIn the Studio
By Visual Art Issue 120
The following year I reentered the studio to die. After fifteen days—unable to eat or sleep, my mind desperately trying to give solace to my broken life—I finally collapsed and gave up my life in radical surrender.
Read MoreA Cappella
By Poetry Issue 120
With a mechanical click,
The light ceases,
Leaves you deep-keeled in darkness.
Monterchi, 1983
By Poetry Issue 120
Yes to mortal love and anguish.
Read MoreJohn Moreland’s Hard-Earned Gospel
By Culture Issue 120
Though Moreland does not subscribe to any traditional faith system, his music is suffused with Christian imagery and with a palpable, unorthodox longing for transcendence.
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