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June 2020

June 01, 2020

Star-Spangled Virus (A Poem About America)

America, when will you stop Punching yourself in the face? Are we really going to...

May 2020

May 31, 2020

Bloom: Prophetic Poetry for Pentecost

Over the past six months, I have created 25 different musical tracks combining spoken word...

May 27, 2020

I Can’t Do This (A Lament)

Starchild · I Can't Do This I can’t do this, Lord; It’s all blasphemy When...

May 26, 2020

Satan As The Virus of Enmity

Satan is a virus. Forgive me if it sounds facetious or opportunistic for me to...

May 18, 2020

Autism As Rebellion Against Correctness

When I was in sixth grade, the drum corps was the coolest part of the...

May 11, 2020

The Light That Will Not Be Seized

[This is a poem about reinterpreting the Genesis 3 Garden of Eden story and how...

May 04, 2020

Home (A Poem About A Mother Who Waits)

Mom wants you to come home: I am not the older brother, Only a goofy...

May 02, 2020

Can We Have a Queer, Erotic God?

One of my more mischievous hobbies during the pandemic over the past few days has...

April 2020

April 30, 2020

Babel (A Poem About Empire, Heresy, and Speaking In Tongues)

She is gathering the trumpets: Maybe there are 7; Maybe a prime number Like 29...

April 29, 2020

Erotic About God (A Poem About Holy Feelings)

Feelings are not things To be condemned but Things to be refined. The reason Sunday...

April 29, 2020

This Is My Body (A Poem About Having A Queer Christian Body)

Jesus is teaching me how to live In a body that is always dying And...

April 28, 2020

The Book (A Poem About Hegemony)

This may not be the right question but Are you a character in a book...

April 26, 2020

Judas (A Poem About The Freedom To Be Wrong)

I will arrive when I Can be wrong without shame, When I know that I...

April 26, 2020

Gardening Alone (A Poem About Making Beats)

I’m gardening alone In my headphones And I get to create An entire universe from...

April 25, 2020

The Elves (A Poem About Poets, Especially Autistic Ones)

We are elves on a secret mission; Our mother has anointed us with dew That...

April 24, 2020

Being A Man (A Poem About Fatherhood)

You asked for the difference Between a man and a boy And I don’t...

April 23, 2020

Canyon (A Poem About Discipline)

I can choose which way My river flows. Not every song Obliges me; Not every...

April 22, 2020

The Prophet’s Lipstick (A Poem About Isaiah)

Now I know what Isaiah did when he was Playing around with fire as...

April 21, 2020

Pachamama (On Flirting With An Andean Goddess)

I met you once on a bus That was going to Zihuatenejo; You had to...

April 20, 2020

Cancel (Another Poem About Twitter)

Beelzebub was presiding over the Convention of demons he had Gathered to strategize about what...

April 18, 2020

Spiritual Memoir (A Poem About My Life)

In my spiritual memoir, Satan will never have A speaking part because it’s Satan who...

April 18, 2020

You Are The Prophets

You are the prophets, not me; I am the encourager; I am the One who...

April 17, 2020

Thumb Tacks (A Poem About Memories)

My medicine today is thumb tacks -- I threw out every other crutch (Except my...

April 16, 2020

Small (A Poem About Greatness)

I need to be small right now And hide within your arms; The world of...

April 15, 2020

No Unimportant Stories (A Poem About Heaven)

There are no unimportant stories And when we finally exist In our final form in...

April 14, 2020

Love Letter to A Diva God (A Poem About How Love Is Delightfully Infuriating)

You have been tuning me into your song, For every time my signal fails to...

April 13, 2020

Is Progressive Christian Twitter A Middle School Cafeteria?

During the pandemic, I have been having a fascinating and frustrating journey in my various...

April 12, 2020

Two Poems About Easter

I. Bus Terminal There’s a feeling like we’re all Just sitting in a bus terminal...

April 11, 2020

Possibility (A Poem About Divine Mystery)

Holy Saturday is The day when there are no Answers, only waiting In the womb...

April 10, 2020

Eucharist (A Poem About The Cross)

It’s such an impossible Thing to understand that I need to eat magic food To...

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