Intercession

from Decades: Selected Poems

Decades: Selected Poems will be released on April 1st! On that day, I’ll appear on the Megyn Kelly Show to promote it (live on Sirius XM’s Triumph Channel, at around 1:15 PM, and then on all streaming and podcast platforms). Later in the month, I’ll be interviewed by Tucker Carlson. Good things are happening.

Here’s another poem from the book.

I’ll send a dispatch on the day of release!'

Thanks, friends, for your support.

Intercession

What’s real
remains blurred
until we say
its name. Lord,
keep me tethered.
Grief burns
in my throat, but
morning slants
into a new season.
Pear trees
flower along
both sides of
the street
and flex
with wind,
off-white
and pixelated
like lungs
breathing memory
or a frame
from a dream
dissolving
before a shock of
forsythia spikes
the landscape yellow.
The colors flood
through me,
what’s left of me
in the sudden
absence of thought.
Call it happiness.
Call it the center
of a prayer.
What’s left of me
when the images
pour in
like a chant
or a charm
and scatter
into the seamless.
To see
by means
of the unseen.
Lord, keep me
tethered
to meaning:
Your silence
where all things
are holy.
All things
vibrating with
light, April
light. Light
with no winter
left in it. Light
of no other hour.