The bridge to belief
spans a river of doubt
Whose rapids are raging,
whose questions cry out
Each step that I’ve taken,
each tread that I cross
Brings me much closer
—to what I once lost
(Montrose: November, 2020)
Herein & Hereafter
Politics governs our
temporal lives
Religion conscripting
eternity’s prize
Together they’ve killed
more than famine and war
A plague that still haunts us
—to shun and deplore
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2020)