Essays

Consider the Toilets of the Field
A Capella
In the Temple of the Lark
Traveling at Home (some short essays from Smile Politely)
A Few Worries about Being a Poet
My Father's Shirt
My Mother's Lists
Reading Spiritual Memoir: A Reader's Spiritual Memoir (pdf)

Selections from A Liturgy for Stones

Like Trees Planted by Streams of Water
Altar Piece
Old Women in Eliot Poems
Blind Willie's Wife
Veni, Sancte, Spiritus and Electric Glossolalia
Sunday Afternoon in the Universe
For John
Children's Sermon and My Friend at Firestone Asks about Poems
Poems Should Not Be (click through archives to Aug 2001)
Gammal Fäbodpsalm
Looking at Roadside Bluestem Before Leaving Decatur
Church Janitor
A Map of the Kingdom and Lydia's Song
A Selfish Sonnet of Thanksgiving
Silence, September 11
After the Signing of this Sunday's Scripture
Suburan Art (audio version)

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