“The Wound” is a poetic retrospective of coming to know God from my third book, Shadow and Memory. It will also be in an upcoming book, Voiceless Choirs: Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs. Voiceless Choirs is a collection of new and previously published poems that center on Christian spirituality. Right now, I am working with my friend, Noah Fultz, to finalize the cover design. (Thank you, Noah!) I hope to self-publish it later this year.
The Wound
All the vacuums
I lived through
All the threadbare, paint-peeling
travesties of home
I rented
where I bared my wanton neck
to vampires
All the CO2 I spoke
from empty lungs
All the days that dry-heaved
into flushed sunsets
I was a coffin lid
my soul clawed
when it woke
in dark panic
suddenly born into
jagged light
that sank its warm, clear sword
into me
filling the wound
I was
A Wandering Minstrel 