Soon Done with the Crosses
eBook - ePub

Soon Done with the Crosses

Poems

  1. 100 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Soon Done with the Crosses

Poems

About this book

Two excerpts from spirituals, offered as epigraphs, foreshadow themes in Soon Done with the Crosses. The first song, "One of These Days, " suggests inevitable burdens that all of us must bear at some point, while the second song, "Do Lord, " supposes a glorious reward for those who faithfully endure. The poems in this book form a catalog of varied trials--both historical and contemporary--drawn from art, imaginings, the natural world, and aspects of the human condition, coupled with questions about eternity. Though while the collection begins with pleas for some bright assurance, it concludes in yet another vigil through dark, lonely hours, longing for morning's clarifying light.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Birds That Alight on Faith
  3. The Parable of the Snail
  4. Blindfish
  5. The Translation of Enoch
  6. Cock Robin, in Memoriam
  7. The Diary of Perpetua
  8. Water Strider
  9. Birds That Cast Shadows Below
  10. Logos
  11. The Fullness Thereof
  12. Carcass of a Vole
  13. An Evening in Annus Mirabilis
  14. Birds That Crash into Glass
  15. After James Dickey’s “Cherrylog Road”
  16. A Story of the Beautiful
  17. Sea Horses
  18. Anathema
  19. Possum
  20. Listening to Nina Simone Sing “To Be Young, Gifted and Black”
  21. Posed beside the Lyceum Marker Commemorating James Meredith’s Enrollment at Ole Miss in 1962
  22. London Rain
  23. Three Dogs in a Larder
  24. Birds That Rebel against God
  25. De la Cité de Dieu
  26. Apokatastasis
  27. Mural
  28. Lete, an Eighteen-Year-Old Prostitute at the San Souxie Brothel in JuĂĄrez
  29. Listening to “Voodoo Child” While Imagining Sisyphus Instructing Jimi Hendrix for His Eternal Labor
  30. Bluesman
  31. Blueswoman
  32. Scapegoat
  33. Bonsai
  34. Birds That Serve as Still Lifes
  35. On the Aquarium in a Doctor’s Waiting Room
  36. Torso of Pan
  37. Rib Cage of a Deer
  38. Shell of a Terrapin
  39. Roadkill
  40. Hellbender
  41. Mule
  42. Tennessee Walking Horse
  43. The Parable of the Crow
  44. The Parable of the Woodpecker
  45. The Parable of the Cicada
  46. Scherzando
  47. Pale Green Victorian
  48. Winged Victory of Samothrace
  49. Before Being Deployed to the Middle East, a Group of Soldiers Eat Together at a Steakhouse in Grenada, Mississippi
  50. Birds That Sing in Winter
  51. Caesura
  52. Sugar Chile Robinson Plays Piano for Harry S. Truman at the White House
  53. Postcard from Patmos
  54. Feet Striking Zion
  55. Birds That Abide No Matter
  56. Dog on a Chain
  57. Abishag’s Task
  58. In Medias Res
  59. Tribulation
  60. The Garden
  61. Vigil