Scarves of worn-out spider webs
This is the sound of the harvest / beyond that row of spruce and aspen / the straining and purring of cogs, belts / and pieces of metal doing their work / to separate the seeds from the chaff
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For a Nazareth carpenter
For a Nazareth carpenter / who lived only 33 years / Your name sure got out.
/ It pops up all over the place.
/ I hear it at a curling event last week.
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When I consider your heavens and the 2021 Mars Rover
Today laid out in puzzlepieces beneath my fingers;pale Milky Way across two hemispheres,Little Dipper Little Bearand Polariswith Pleiades and Orion to the right.…..Reminded with pleasure of Job referencing…..these constellations by name,…..and God,…..questioning him 30 chapters later. Mars in a chart in the top left-hand cornerwith no sign of the successful arrivalof the rover Perseverance.Builders so…
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Using the ‘S’ Word
“By one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy” (Heb. 10:14). Two verb tenses: “He has made perfect” done done done “those who are being made holy” still in progress Justification and sanctification Latin to me until I see God looking at me through Jesus who stands between us
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Three Gifts
A poem.
