Christian Surgery Poems

Devotion

If I was a lung
I'd need you as breath
If you are the air
You keep me from death

My blood needs your heart
To circulate freely
And also your...

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Every writer's work
a soulful surgery

we draw from mysterious
substance, submerged man's core
in fluids indefinable – amniotic sea of source
buoyant, yet only mistily determinable, unknown
were it not...

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Devotion Poem Seven, The Unknowing

(Written for Jim Eslinger, as I face complex surgery)


The difficult coming days shall combine
Into a memory of run hours.
And the hours...

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Waiting for heart surgery

Fun is over ion the sleepless night
No more jokes about the seriousness of
My friend’s surgery.
it is a stark night the wind has...

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