Winter Solstice (3)
Try not to be afraid
To burn the old poetry
If you require its light
If summer fades too quickly
To winter without a pause
Some years will be...
Known
There isn’t a way
To be both known
And invisible
To be seen
And hide the secret stories
In a misspent sacrifice
That protects other people
At the cost
Of being alive...
Shards
My daughter tells me
The new mirror in my room
Could be like the one found
In her favorite story
Revealing the deepest desires
I settle my worn pink...
October
October 29, 2021
I think I may quit the church
Of trying to change the world now
Sit alone on my porch
Wrapped in a sweater
With my coffee...
Outer Banks
August 19, 2021
I was always waiting
For someone to take me
to this specific beach
Something about the empty stretches
Of churning waves shaping dunes
And no hotels hovering
Just...
Gray
May 31, 2020
Last night
Some of my city burned
This morning after surveying
The remains
I decided to finish painting
My dining room table: blue
And the chairs
Confederate gray
Irony not...
Daughters of Rizpah: Working Through Trauma
Buttry, Sharon A. and Daniel L. Buttry. Daughters of Rizpah: Nonviolence and the Transformation of Trauma. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2020.
Sharon and Dan Buttry...
World of Meaning
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Howard Thurman (April 10), an early twentieth century African-American theologian, poet, pastor, and activist...
Thinning
April 4, 2021
This is my garden
And I choose who lives who dies
Perhaps if I had space
I could accommodate more
But this is a tiny yard
And...
Books for Reckoning with White Supremacy in the American Church
The Cross and the Lynching Tree, James H. Cone (2011)
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, Jemar Tisby...
