Monday, March 21, 2011

First church service after Katrina

One time,

I drove all night and into the next day,

with a car full of strangers.


there were fish on the ground,

and skeletons of houses and creatures,

plastered on roads and balanced on the tops of tops.


If stories are enough to cripple me,

I expected devastation of more than buildings.


to my great surprise,

I found music.


ah, and see they knew of what they sang.


'You give and take away. You give and take away. Still my heart will choose to say,

Blessed be the name of the Lord.'

Monday, March 14, 2011

Sometimes after so much time surrounded with the all the bleak things
you pretend the sun is meant to make you, aware-alive.