I forget sometimes/
that alongside achingly hard work/
there is beauty/
then I remember stories of my grandmother/
we never met/
except perhaps in the ether/
before and after/
life/
but still/
she taught me strength/
and still/
she teaches/
beauty
View from my window with cancer: OR Sickness Unto Life

Just imagine/ my perennial failure and refusal to/ inhabit God/ I don’t mean go to church/ or lead church/ or dictate spirit/ I mean/ indwell/ and dwell in/ the Living/ Loving God/ Maybe my failure to do so/ Invites God to inhabit my life/ and the only way to get/ my full attention/ because I just won’t be/ still/ with God/ the only way to make me/ stop and look/ is a form of something/ I once…