Graduation Poem: “Hands”

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" center_content="no" min_height="none"] Source: Donato, Amber Prison Have you ever found yourself just looking at your hands? Marveling at the beauty, simplicity, utility, and the fleshly humanity of them? You take your hands through [...]

2019-10-05T16:57:57-08:00March 30th, 2016|LIOS, Poetry, Saybrook University|

Luther

When I was a kid I remember messing up real bad and since my dad had just become a Christian he told me that I should go to my room and pray to God. So with tears in my eyes I went to my room, into my closet and in the darkness I knelt down [...]

2019-10-05T16:57:58-08:00January 7th, 2016|Poetry|

Pilgrim, Saint, Sun, Earth

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" center_content="no" min_height="none"] Source: Flammarion Woodcut   When I was 21 I took a pilgrimage I walked 100 miles through northern Spain to see the remains of a Saint But when I got there [...]

2019-10-05T16:57:58-08:00December 31st, 2015|Poetry|

Childhood Photograph

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" center_content="no" min_height="none"] Source: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, View from the Window at Le Gras I took out some pictures from my parents photo album I didn’t do it in secret but I didn’t ask [...]

2019-10-05T16:57:58-08:00December 22nd, 2015|Poetry|

Justice is Empty

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" center_content="no" min_height="none"] Source: EmptyARTJustice I was in the car with my dad, he was taking me to soccer practice. He asked me if I would pass the ball to this kid named Alan, [...]

2019-10-05T16:57:58-08:00December 19th, 2015|Poetry|