GRACE

"You who are seeking to be justified by law, you have been severed from Christ; you have fallen from grace." Galatians 5:4

when my father died
i was ready

he was not perfect
nor had we perfected what it meant to love each other
but the love we had covered a multitude of sins

that's what it means to die in a state of grace

SX

I've abstained from the vowel all these years
With the hopes of savoring it all the more

With the one
the only
the everlasting

There are those who say I am missing something
And I suppose I am
For how can a person compose a word without it?

But just as the Jews considered the name God so holy
That they wouldn't write His name with the vowels
YHWH
I suppress the urge
To ooh and ahh
As much as possible

I've dabbled in the "S"
And given in to "X"

And I've had it

THE COPPER BEECH

If I could do it over again

I would recommend we investigate that ancient tree
Put our arms around it 
And touch hands

I would suggest we continue our conversation
Before lying on the couch
And rolling on the floor
Before scaling the wall
And lying in the grass

Despite the meadow
And the moonlight
If I could do it over again

I wouldn't