Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Unto Him That Is Able to Keep You from Falling, and to Present You Faultless

The Spirit leads,
from wilderness and desert-wold
twisting truths


So god-breathe
but get behind me,
where my ears cannot
o'er the chorus
but Satan drags—
to temple-peak and mountaintop,
into temptations.


your misquotations,
Satan!
pick out your lies
of His praises.

Monday, January 12, 2015

He Shall Baptize You with the Holy Ghost and with Fire

Envelop me with water, Lord;
impress the seal with fire--
that like a pillared cloud the steam 
yet draws my spirit higher.

Thursday, January 1, 2015

The Bottles Break and the Wine Runneth Out (and the Bottles Perish)

The Lord will pour new heav'n
(like wine)

into this old-skin earth
until it swells and bursts--
spilling forth from laid-bare seams
like streams-of-living-water-turned-to-wine.