Jesus, I am cruelly lonely and I do not know what I have done nor do I suspect that you will answer me. And, what is more, I have spent these bare months bargaining with my soul as if I could make her promise to love me when now it seems that what I meant […]

O God, to me take heed of help I thee require: O Lord of hosts with haste and speed help, help, I thee desire. With shame confound them all, that seek my soul to spill: Rebuke them back with blame to fall that think and wish me ill. Confound them that apply, and seek to […]

I Have Loved My Horrible Self, Lord. I Rose, Lord And I Rose, Lord, And I, Dropt. Your Requirements, Lord. ‘Spite Your Requirements, Lord, I Have Loved The Low Voltages Of The Moon, Lord, Until There Was No Moon Intensity Left, Lord, No Moon Intensity Left For You, Lord. I Have Loved The Frivolous, The […]

Let stars reverse their courses — hallelujah — Let planets flaunt their necklaces of ice – Let suns confound eclipses – hallelujah – Let moons’ scavenged radiance rejoice— Let galaxies recluster – hallelujah – Let nebulae uncloud and celebrate – Let meteors spread banners – hallelujah – Let black holes unleash astonished light— Let comets […]

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil […]

My Lord, My Lord, Long have I cried out to Thee In the heat of the sun, The cool of the moon My screams searched the heavens for Thee. My God, When my blanket was nothing but dew. Rags and bones Were all I owned. I chanted Your name Just like Job. Father, Father, My […]

My voice to thee itself extremely straining, Cries praying, Lord, again it crying prayeth: Before they face the cause of my complaining, Before thy face my case’s map it layeth Wherein my soul is painted In doubtful way a stranger: But, Lord, thou art acquainted, And knowst each path, where stick the toils of danger. […]

Praise for the names of songbirds for the edge of metal Praise for the finger’s whole of grease for the traffic rattle. Praise for fire’s raw alchemy for the bolting lettuce Praise for the border that invention serves for the silt of rivers. Praise for the dog retrieving geese for the lathe-wrought vessel Praise for […]

The Lord will happiness divine On contrite hearts bestow; Then tell me, gracious God, is mine A contrite heart or no? I hear, but seem to hear in vain, Insensible as steel; If aught is felt, ‘tis only pain, To find I cannot feel. I sometimes think myself inclined To love Thee if I could; […]