Monthly Archives: November 2016

A lion will never eat me because it hates me

I wonder what else have we bred out of the domestic house cat over all these centuries? I look at my cat Tiger and see the ancestry of vicious animals, vicious not out of malice, but nature. We sifted this from … Continue reading

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-ness

Sometimes we are only organisms among organisms – we respond through both willful and involuntary action to primal instincts and desires, triggered by external causes. We covet and protect and hunt and gather. Other times, we are more complex than … Continue reading

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I Came to Draw You

trim-7a789ed5-d6b3-4427-9377-50668f2e562d I came to draw You, and with my own eyes, You painted all the cosmos between us, and then You opened my eyes, and with the illusion of vision, I imagined myself, imagining You. You, Who we cannot see, … Continue reading

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The Words I Hold Silent

Fleeting failures along Escher’s steps. Tender steps of whispered hope Ascending toward a timeless state Returning home, returning home, Where the awaited wait. God has blessed the words I hold silent Those whose truth is betrayed by a breath Those … Continue reading

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Heart Holds Vigil

My heart holds vigil While the pen’s away As the mind settles Along the edge of day At my horizon’s melting there, Your stars appear where I’ve gone dark With nothing to say, Aye, my heart holds vigil With its … Continue reading

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The Edge

There is love at the edge and on either steep side below the scintillating surface and ocean’s lost depths and boundless sky. I am the ocean’s thin edge step thee nearer to me step far into this sea foam you … Continue reading

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