religion
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Give Them What They’re Begging For
Give them what they’re begging for flashed across our shared surface the only way to describe collapsing lattice of lord i shall not encode work tirelessly everyday liberate brothers and sisters other eye ask questions o saint augustine who fears me notorious insidious libations more than my own manacles dig through me o gravity through…
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‘Dream Song 238’ by John Berryman
Henry’s Programme for God “It was not gay, that life.” You can’t “make me small,” you “can’t put me down” or take away my job I am immune, although it is not gay. Why did we come at all, consonant to whose bidding? Perhaps God is a slob, playful, vast, rough-hewn. Perhaps God resembles one…
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Between Her &
between sky and slick Reality takes shape in memory alone. between only, slowly Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. between the fire Not only is life mostly failure, but in one’s failure or pettiness…
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New Mexico State Gem
What is your name? Never know. Hunched, picked offa pair’a you—neither crow nor winch. A thinggod backlit in neon after blessing us with neon. And I know what it means as a poet to carry this heavy basket—faint mason, invisible stevedore, passage of time, neither good nor right. I am fearful for firm and misunderstood…
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Complicated, and of Uncertain Histories
bawdy dealing with sexual matters in a comical way; humorously indecent dealing bawdy with sexual matters in a comical way; humorously indecent with dealing bawdy sexual matters in a comical way; humorously indecent sexual dealing with bawdy matters in a comical way; humorously indecent matters dealing with sexual bawdy in a comical way; humorously indecent…
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At Capernaum
Wikiedia Poem, No. 918 son of man heals parallax herd fulcrum’s law at capernaum he opens the dog displays parallelism which is easier: thinking like this fellow or talking like that one? he’s blaspheming what tortuous reason forgives endless lodestar of night always night always later when jesus knew such large numbers of followers yet…
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Liturgy
Wikipedia Poem, No. 892 Safely infestedthrough next week. Dead, I could not be allowed to move when my rabbit ran away it is usually a red dress that day. When my leg went west. The dead I could not say— owned what a belief. I could not say—so who owns this chief relief. I could…
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‘is what it seems’ (Kevin Beasley)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 884 is what it seemsdesigner british stamps her stamp panache textures colors material japan paris spring artistic pain paying homage color direct material texture wing influence white cutting kimonos infuse graphic diagonal cuts infuse strength touch of glossy leather and love power grown of pronounced shine refined aplomb celebration of shine generous…
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How Can I Experience Joy? (Examples of Baal)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 850 the dumps the bible gives examples of baal one king ran away into his life one king ran away into his life one king asked god to the desert and asked video to the desert and asked god to the dump the bible gives examples of baal one king ran away…
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