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We Had Hoped
January 12, 2023 | < 1D.S. Martin
Luke 24:21 How hard to walk a bleak road Do you not know? the path before us uphill Have you not heard? With talk of dreams all past tense our feet come to…

Fragrance
December 15, 2022 | < 1D.S. Martin
Working the dough in a bowl seems more poetic than having a machine do the kneading Now a mechanical whir replaces whacking it & watching it rise beats returning it to the hot oven & pulling it out at just the right time I tinker with recipes & assess consistency …

This Same Jesus
December 4, 2020 | < 1D.S. Martin
So often you look at something without really seeing it like when we saw you & your ten friends staring into the sky Later that day you couldn’t say without first closing your eyes if the clouds had been high & wispy or thick & glacier white & we not thinking of…

Fra Angelico’s Agony in the Garden
December 3, 2020 | < 1D.S. Martin
I have stood on the hillside Fra Angelico depicts where the gnarled roots of ancient olive trees still intertwine & grow from the roots of even older trees where twisted trunks & bent branches suggest an endured agony of their own where the weary disciples slept as Christ wept on…

Midrash on the Lord’s Prayer
December 2, 2020 | < 1D.S. Martin
I Our Father simultaneously far & near my insufficient fear could never drive me to dive deep as Titanic on the wide Atlantic’s floor for there’s nowhere to hide or if I tried an astro-Jonah scooting to some far star that’s where you’d be especially…

Ministering Angel
December 1, 2020 | < 1D.S. Martin
A dusty track curves into the wilderness Two walk eventually veering from that road across a land of dry stones one in physical form led by one unseen We hover just beyond his perception waiting & watching as he’s left to walk deeper into desert alone on his slow slow…

Stargazer
November 30, 2020 | < 1D.S. Martin
From my high tower first I saw it rise the harbinger portending divine birth a bright horizon star in the night skies announcing heaven coming down to earth Our caravan soon followed trade routes west in search of a grand palace for this king but over a poor town it…