Poetry & Prose

In Spirit and Truth

*Excerpts from “In Spirit and Truth”

(2012)

 

Appleton liquors, Elliot’s, the shelter on Middlesex

Baby Jesus got bread…

Community table…

Wants you to eat—let Him feed you, He’s able…

You feelin’ feeble—He’s stable…

The Rock—the Foundation…

Joubano—the Shepherd…

Not no munga preacher—He really heal lepers…

Calling the lost and sick to repentance…

Salt of the earth—in the midst of the hurt we are peppered…

Searching for truth and knowledge…

Not liras and drachmas

Do you hear us?—can’t stop us.