by Brian Volck | Apr 19, 2014 | liberation, poetry, Uncategorized
Having Crossed the Sea (Exodus 15) I have seen them, dead along the shore, their bloated faces still ripe with hate. And there was one I stopped at to kick— kick him fiercely and hard in the face the way they kicked my now dead husband who wept at making bricks...
by Brian Volck | Mar 27, 2013 | kenosis, liberation, poetry
For Pesach and Holy Week, an older poem of mine, engaging the great festivals in a slantwise way: Francis and the Leper (for Richard Rohr) They both stank (it was not a time obsessed with odorlessness). Doubtless both were frightened: the God-besotted penitent...
