Tag Archives: song
Sing lead
even badly, lest you be relegated to backup — partial thoughts, repetitive fragments — behind stars and perpetually reaching for lyrics (going back to find), words you might have sung, not another’s chorus (leaving on the midnight train), but the singular verses of your one life that (dreaming) might make a melody: full-throated, headstrong, heartfelt. […]
Cricket
Your small wisdom reverberates, shames my garrulous tongue. All the days of your brief life remembering what all these years I keep forgetting: the primacy of song, the power of song, the totality of song, as if we were made for nothing else. You still my wasted words; mute my foolish mouth, which henceforth shall […]
God sleeps in
Having labored through the night to extinguish the day’s wickedness, God sleeps in that you might awaken at just the right moment in the liminal space between adjudged sins and feel, fleeting, the world made new — its wild and profligate beauty — the innocence of flesh upon bone the softness of the unguarded heart the […]
In praise of cricket
Your small wisdom reverberates, shames my garrulous tongue. All the days of your brief life remembering what all these years I keep forgetting: the primacy of song, the power of song, the totality of song, as if we were made for nothing else. You still my wasted words; you mute my foolish mouth, which henceforth […]
Meditatio Ephemera 