This blog is part of a sermon I preached today on Christ the King Sunday

https://notanormalvicar.blogspot.com/2022/11/being-woke-in-christs-name.html

The Storm
by Mary Oliver

Now through the white orchard my little dog
romps, breaking the new snow
with wild feet.
Running here running there, excited,
hardly able to stop, he leaps, he spins
until the white snow is written upon
in large, exuberant letters,
a long sentence, expressing
the pleasures of the body in this world.
Oh, I could not have said it better

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Words written,
secret, etched in
by design,

fingers running
over ragged cuts,
a reading touch -

the sign of
the times

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Eclipse by CE Wallace

Here
On the
Dark
Side
Of the
Moon
I sit in
Shadow
Clinging
To the
Promise
That no
Matter
Which
Phase I
Might be
In I still
Remain
Whole

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My poem published in the oldest African American Academic Journal, The African American Review: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/810356/pdf

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How The Rifle Lost Its Bork
November 1, 2022

o dear children listen
for this story I can share
a rifle’s not a baseball bat
don’t swing it like a chair
so when you’re out of ammo
and the porcupine’s half there
don’t give to sweet temptation
or you’ll pay for the repair

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