As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. The very gunfire braces us and the atrocious confers a worth upon the...
And did I seek the Kingdom? Will the KingdomCome? The idea of it there, Behind its scrim since font and fontanel,Breaks like light or water,Like giddiness I felt at the old storyOf how he’d turn away...
Human beings suffer,They torture one another,They get hurt and get hard.No poem or play or songCan fully right a wrongInflicted and endured.The innocent in gaolsBeat on their bars together.A hunger-st...