Kurt Philip Behm

Blessing\'s For Sale (+1)

Church always sides

with canons and might,

preaching of dawn

while blessing the night

 

Holiness shines

among diamonds and gold,

the battle unwon

—till redemption is sold

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2021)

 

 

Short Window

 

He burned the book on the second day,

its truth not till the third

but in between–his memory screamed,

forever to be heard

 

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: December, 2021)