A Last Conversation and Elegy
A Last Conversation and Elegy – for Monk Maximos To stand beside you in this hour, to look upon your face composed as it is in your final rest, those intelligent features sunk in suffering from your final days, but these are the features I know. It is when one stands here by the open … Continue reading
Song of the Dnieper Fisherwoman
An Elegy on the Ukraine Crisis In the great rivers that run through our dreams, divide the continents, delineate rain-woven mountain ranges, we search the watersheds from which emerge the slow formation of thought. Out of their haunted breath language tumbles, splashing stones slowly worn to unpredictable polished gravel teeth in the tongue of unrelenting … Continue reading
My Father
My Father 7/22/29 – 4/1/20 The old body gave out at last – we knew it would, no longer able to sustain the willing soul – it groaned against the breath, but would not let go – There was a time body and soul in such splendid in harmony there was no difference … Continue reading
Prayer in the face of pandemic
This is a time for prayer. Our land needs prayer; our land is thirsty for prayer; as a nation we do not really even know what prayer is anymore. As a modern nation we barely know God – certainly not the sacramental God Who sacrificed himself to live among us in the Holy Church, … Continue reading
Christmas choir on the radio
St. Herman’s Orthodox choir on public radio singing Orthodox Christmas hymns. http://solmaker.com/public/ChoirKPTZ-171222.mp3
Embers out of the sky
Embers out of the sky dry forests vomiting the smoke that inters your dreams swallowing the rugged mountain homes that have been here so long, turning red eyes toward the sleeping valley. Where were we dancing when the wind first began to speak? There was a wedding somewhere, cloudless music among the … Continue reading
Orthodox Illumination 