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Slender Flames: A Study of Haiku & Related Forms
A Poetic Craft Essay
Jan 12
Trio-lets
Take my hand, my dearest friend. / I forget so easily, / and often ...
14 hrs ago
Meditation XVIII
O God who reaches down through all the cracks / earth wears ...
Jan 8
Breath
You have / been told / that winter is death / but also that death ...
Jan 2
Meditation XVII
O God who filled the crystal hourglass / with every captive grain ...
Dec 31, 2025
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Meditation X
Jun 3, 2025
The Signs Are There Before Us
Jun 7, 2025
In Him All Things
Jun 30, 2025
The Trees Return Their Labor
Nov 9, 2025

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Advent 2025: Christ
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Dec 25, 2025
Advent 2025: Love
haiku / boketto part 1 / gogyohka / boketto part 2 / haiku
Dec 24, 2025
Advent 2025: Angels
They were not of soil, but from their eyes / poured forth the ...
Dec 21, 2025
Advent 2025: Joy
haiku / boketto part 1 / gogyohka / boketto part 2 / haiku
Dec 19, 2025
Advent 2025: Shepherds
Dwelling in the fields—the shepherd’s task / especially at ...
Dec 17, 2025

meditation series

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Meditation XVIII
O God who reaches down through all the cracks / earth wears ...
Jan 8
Meditation XVII
O God who filled the crystal hourglass / with every captive grain ...
Dec 31, 2025
Meditation XVI
O God who bent to breathe into the clay, / woke man to meet his soulmate ...
Oct 6, 2025
Meditation XV
O God who is a tinder fire prepared / to warm our weary bones at close of day ...
Sep 17, 2025
Meditation XIV
O God more chronic than the racking wheeze / of destitution’s sickest prisoner ...
Sep 8, 2025
Meditation XIII
O God who will not wear the clothes laid out / to dress you in your Sunday best ...
Aug 25, 2025
Meditation XII
O God who made the dandelion gold / to scatter wealth before our beggared ...
Jul 20, 2025
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