Absence and Desire: Kierkegaardian Silence in Hlynur Pálmason’s Godland
By Culture Issue 118
We watch as the cross is carried out of sight. The land is speaking here. It says: Be patient. You do not need this. You cannot tame me with this cross. You cannot replace me. Be still. Listen.
Read MoreIn the Studio
By Visual Art Issue 118
My art practice also ebbs and flows like the liturgical seasons.
Read MoreIn the Studio
By Visual Art Issue 118
I thought about how, as a society, we haven’t understood this lesson of humility and service: we don’t know what it means to wash one another’s feet, just like we haven’t comprehended the meaning of “love thy neighbor.”
Read MoreSaint Blaise of Throats and Wild Things
By Poetry Issue 118
Brutish tongue in both; I’ve caught / myself as a wildness.
Read MoreHaptics of Blue
By Poetry Issue 118
In tender protest, / my world is another color.
Read MoreJohnny Appleseed
By Poetry Issue 118
I am just about / ninety percent apple at this point—all out // of baskets and stuck on a riverbank smack-dab / in the middle of orchard country.
Read MoreWhat Is Touching
By Essay Issue 118
When our knees touched, I felt it was because of a shared understanding of what it meant to feel like prey.
Read MoreOld Woman Reading Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs
By Poetry Issue 118
I mean I need to love with the love that is milk before the pitcher / shatters
Read MoreBenedetta
By Fiction Issue 118
Good evening. Are you an angel?
Read MoreRevelation 21:4
By Poetry Issue 118
All those promises. / Every teardrop wiped away… / Insufficient, Lord.
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