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And I am what but a hair machine / He loved but could not recognize

I am my parents’ first book.

It almost takes a supernatural power to insist on existing, belonging, and mattering as an embodied presence when you are an outsider.

let pass another word / of love impossible submerged.

Sunflowers like skinny men with rubberneck looks.

While all this was going on, the Christ above the altar began to come alive.

For Image’s inaugural issue, editor Harold Ficket interviewed the Presbyterian minister, novelist, and memoirist Frederick Buechner (1926-2022), covering a range of topics of interest: inspiration for his novels, the ambiguity inherent to experiences of the divine, and the faith-informed vision necessary for seeing miracles. “God moves in these elusive, mysterious, ambiguous ways through our lives,”…

Two figures, one of them kneeling, / have mastered the washing machine.