Providing for Naomi
I stand on the threshing floor, In the busy harvest season. Seed runs through my fingers like water, Yellow air burns my eyes, and dust...
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Nov 24, 20191 min read
Wretched, We Sail On
A shadow of sensation lies therein. The hungered truth is stumbling on the stairs. All pleasure which is measured is a sin And faith...
Nov 20, 20191 min read
Announcing Our Pushcart Prize Nominations for 2019
One of the most difficult tasks I face as editor of Ancient Paths Online is sifting through the many excellent poems published throughout...
Nov 19, 20191 min read
RIP
As Mrs. Burns is slouching in her urn I suppose you'd say she'd like to be at peace although Joanna hasn't managed to reserve a plot....
Nov 9, 20191 min read
The Red Road
Windblown, rain-born, mothers with children, their aged parents, arm-hung, basket-carried, free pedaling, four-legged, or three-legged,...
Nov 4, 20191 min read
On the Road to Damascus
Published on the Ancient Paths Facebook page on November 2, 2019. Saul mounted the horse with his band of men Strong-minded in his...
Oct 30, 20191 min read
Unwrapping the Wise Men's Gifts
Published on the Ancient Paths Facebook page on January 6, 2019. Did they camel-caravan together from the slopes of Iran, and navigate...
Oct 30, 20191 min read
The Communion
Published on January 12, 2019 on the Ancient Paths Facebook page. A butterfly floated face down in the warm pool. So I lifted it up, ...
Oct 30, 20191 min read
Free As Smoke
Published on the Ancient Paths Facebook page on January 26, 2019. The hermit said, “I have no need of hacksaws, files, dynamite, or...
Oct 30, 20191 min read
A.D. 2018
Published on February 2, 2019 on the Ancient Paths Facebook page. Last night I walked the autumn woods alone in darkness. The fallen...
Oct 30, 20191 min read
Cathédrale St-Sauveur, Aix en Provence, France
Published on the Ancient Paths Facebook page on February 9, 2019. "To everything, there is a season and a time to every purpose under the...
Oct 30, 20191 min read
My Metrical Sin
Published on the Ancient Paths Faceboo page on February 16, 2019. My metrical sin never goes away, Though I try to measure all that I...
Oct 30, 20191 min read
Undead
Published on the Ancient Paths Facebook page on February 23, 2019. We walk with hands swinging at our sides hair in varying degrees of...
Oct 30, 20191 min read
From North Korea: The Phantom Fisherman
Published on the Ancient Paths Facebook page on March 2, 2019. Who will take the box With my ashes? Dry and white, It is last of eight....
Oct 30, 20191 min read
Ash Wednesday
Published March 6, 2019 on the Ancient Paths Facebook page. Cold kitchen rid of lard and all sweetness. Oven unfired, tomb for scents —...
Oct 30, 20191 min read
Tainted Snow
Published March 6, 2019 on the Ancient Paths Facebook page. My soul is like the brilliant snow Which burdened fell one winter day Upon...
Oct 30, 20191 min read
Reminder
Published on the Ancient Paths Facebook page on October 26, 2019. When our world is plunged into darkness we realize we don’t own...
Oct 25, 20191 min read
Come Tender Friends
Published on the Ancient Paths Facebook page on March 16, 2019. Come tender friend of Spring, come vanquish white-sharp night and with...
Oct 25, 20191 min read
Abel
Published on the Ancient Paths Facebook page on March 23, 2019. And so this thing is death, and this, the dead, And this red blood that...
Oct 24, 20191 min read
Lent
Published March 26, 2019 on the Ancient Paths Facebook page. Don’t give up chocolate for Lent. Give up guilt, give up regret for what...
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