Table of Contents
xiii Preface
xvii Pilgrimage
Opening Act: Setting the Stage
3 Contemplate
4 Grammar
5 How to Write a Poem
6 Morning Percussion
7 Listening Between the Lines
8 Parts of Speech
9 Prayers on Paper
10 The First Lesson
11 Viewfinder
12 Write Here
13 Writer's Break
Act I: Winter-Waiting & Still
17 After Clarice
18 Doing Dishes in the Dark
19 Isaiah 1:18
20 January Bird
21 Lighthouse
22 Slow
23 Thresh Hold
24 Traveling
25 Work. Out.
26 Sabbath on the Page, Winter
Act II: Spring-Sowing & Hope
29 Conditioned Air
30 First Things-An Inventory
31 Leafworks
32 Five Small Poems
34 Maker, Make Me (Four Prayers)
36 Matins
37 Looking Glass
38 Physical Science
39 Rain Sonnet
40 Real Time
41 Recipe for Awakening
42 Revelation
43 To the Tune of Lilies
44 True Wood
45 Up
46 Wholly Spirit
Act III: Summer-Move & Grow
49 A Capella
50 Alchemy
51 Breath Prayer
52 Contrast: Second Peter Two
53 Conversation
54 Flight Plan
55 Gossamer Faith
56 Garden Ledger
58 Grandson, Summer
59 Sky Psalm, Toddler
60 Jewel Box
61 On the Wind
62 Pressed into Joy
63 Refining
64 Ultrasound
Act IV: Fall-Harvest & Future
67 Steps to Picking Raspberries
68 A Gift
69 Age Is Just a Number
70 Begin Again
71 Celestial Bodies
72 Homing Orb
73 How to Be a Poem
74 I Choose
75 Night. Time.