Poetry

Featured Poem 

Collecting leaves over the years has created joy in their color and reusability. Long ago I bought a fall floral arrangement book that lands on the coffee table each year. It’s the one book where I press and store all my fall leaves. The yellow guy on the right landed on my hoodie while on a leaf collecting walk. This little ditty is in his honor.

You Found Me

We stroll between

earth and sky,

torn between gazing up

and hunting down.

You float between

branches,

scutter and twirl

across gravel and pavement.

Many years I’ve

pressed you into old books.

Now, I seek after the “perfect” one

to complete my collection.

Of course, it’s never finished.

Who can resist gathering brilliant

flame, without burning fingertips?

Holding fire, flickering the edges?

And yet, here you are.

Idyllic pair captured,

I think on where you’ll go next.

Glow up the dining table,

adorn the mantle, save for next year?

Wait! An unexpected scratch

tickles my neck.

I stretch back,

feel the tag on my hoodie.

Look at you, li’l yellow renegade!

you accost me with 

a fall, a caress,

a cry,

“Take me home too!”

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Between Midnight and Dawn

A Literary Guide to Lent, Holy Week and Eastertide

Paraclete Press – 2016

This collection features Biblical readings, essays and poetry to compliment and enhance your Lenten journey. Poetry becomes more essential as I grow through the seasons of life. I wrote the poem featured in this book, “Miserere,” after visiting the Benedictine Monastary in Florence, Italy. This guide was lovingly created and arranged by Sarah Arthur.