GOOD TO KNOW

it’s good to know
we are fashioned
in God’s image

and thus
suicide
is a
mortal sin

but then
we come to the issue
of machine guns,
flamethrowers and
nuclear weapons

when wondering
why Heaven is
so huge but

they let
no one in

THE PROFESSION OF BEAUTY

RECKONING

in the end
there will be a reckoning

us called to account for
the green, blue paradise
left a sorry wreck

though in mitigation
we might attest

to
thicker smoke
in our tribute

taller, more
heavenly chimneys