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My Puritan story at CT...

Charis has clambered on top of the new-and-noteworthy reviews at Christianity Today. I'm very glad to have that attention, and happy for the words of reviewer and novelist Heather Cross. Charis in the World of WondersMarly Youmans (Ignatius Press)Set in Massachusetts Bay Colony during the 1690s, Charis in the World of Wonders plunges us into the mind, language, and worldview of a young woman

Sun and Moon etc.

Sun and Moon.Taken near the side door by Michael.WVAfter returning from a six-day jaunt in West Virginia (and a bit of Virginia), where we pondered retirement possibilities for the still-distant future and met up with Progeny no. 3, I have been rather lukewarm about all things social media-ish and the blog. Also lazy about submitting anything.... and the only new publications are print-on-paper,

Rabbits, Tavener, Poems

Zefram; GFDL Cc-by-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0Paderborner Cathedral,  DreihasenfensterCreated: 29 July 2006TINNERS' RABBITSThanks to Conor Sweetman and the staff of Ekstasis, who recently accepted a couple of poems of mine; the first can be found HERE. If you want to know more about the rabbits--hares, really-- you can see a Cornish tin miner's  badge here, an Alsace puzzle plate here, a Mogao Caves temple

Rain-poem, rumination, Russian

Poem at NAA: Woman, Tree, RainI'd forgotten this poem by the time it appeared. I've written stories with women in trees, and wrote a whole novel once that kept a woman high in a redwood. I've written poems that were self-portraits-as-dryad, and trees often invade my lines. So it wasn't surprising to reread and find that by the close I had found it worthwhile to communicate with a tree.Thoreau

Poems, bridges, signs

Bouquet for 34 years, July 16MEZZO CAMMINSome poems that the late poet, editor, and professor Kim Bridgford accepted for Mezzo Cammin are up--now re-accepted by editor Anna Evans. Thanks to her and the journal!Here are titles and first lines to entice you to fly HERE...The Maiden-Saint of FranceWhile still a child I was a thing men fear,The fire-struck one who has the ears to hearThe Watering

Poems, bridges, signs

MEZZO CAMMINSome poems that the late poet, editor, and professor Kim Bridgford accepted for Mezzo Cammin are up--now re-accepted by editor Anna Evans. Thanks to her and the journal!Here are titles and first lines to entice you to fly HERE...The Maiden-Saint of FranceWhile still a child I was a thing men fear,The fire-struck one who has the ears to hearThe Watering PlaceWe wished the stream to be

Stay cool! Winter poem. Gogol on art and transformation.

HOT HOT HOTI got up at 7:00 a.m., coolest hour of the day, to pull the fans and shut the windows and curtains... Here's an image of this week's hot-weather picnic. Spanish tapas followed by homemade ice cream hiding little morsels of fresh cherries and dark chocolate.If somebody has a secret weapon against Japanese knotweed (that green stuff in the background), let me know! Losing every battle

Stay cool! Winter poem. Gogol on art and transfformation.

HOT HOT HOTI got up at 7:00 a.m., coolest hour of the day, to pull the fans and shut the windows and curtains... Here's an image of this week's hot-weather picnic. Spanish tapas followed by homemade ice cream hiding little morsels of fresh cherries and dark chocolate.If somebody has a secret weapon against Japanese knotweed (that green stuff in the background), let me know! Losing every battle

Late morning thoughts

Aside from tweaking yesterday's poem, I have managed to lay waste to the morning without much accomplishment. Unlike yesterday, when I was a weeding demon in the garden, and also cut down the leaves of autumn crocuses (croci!) that will magically return as flowers in the fall... What a weird emblem of resurrection they are! The big broad leaves of spring turn brown and die, and the the autumn

Zoomreadery

Click HERE to find a Zoom invite for my CANO (Community Arts Network of Oneonta) reading on the 17th, tomorrow, 7:30 p.m. EST (It kicks off with a short open mike session followed by yours truly reading from THE BOOK OF THE RED KING (Phoenicia Publishing, 2019) and CHARIS IN THE WORLD OF WONDERS (Ignatius Press, 2020.) Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins!