Authors /
Warren L. Molton
Guy next to me on the plane
He said he was a fallen catholic, lower case, and smiled.
Said he didn’t intend to be, often pretended not to be,
but was. Said that God for him was like the guy next door,...
Communion in Korea—late summer 1954
With my last Amen, our soldiers left the shade
of the only tree that the artillery had spared
on the stump-studded hills rising all around us,...
Off the coast of Charleston
For decades, Wild Dunes was our vacation home
until aging with the sea and sand and shifting
with the dunes and the wash of waves,...
Read THE COW IS NOW said the child
The cow is now.
Lowing and chewing,
no mewing or bowing to spring
like that upon a rat.
The cow’s no cat....
Where will you be, God?
“How oft when men are at the pointof death have they been merry! which their keepers call a lightning before death.”...
Whatta ya say?
If God is that small space left at the table, then go ahead and sit there if you like.Even if you weren’t invited, that doesn’t mean you aren’t welcome....
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