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Rocking Like It's All Intermezzo
Twenty-first-Century Psalm Responsorials
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What does it mean that the Psalms are the prayer book of the people? Rocking Like It's All Intermezzo: Twenty-first-Century Psalm Responsorials is one such person's prayer book. Using familiar refrains as their starting points, the poems attempt a balance between how the psalmist understood God's faithfulness and how the poet's lived experience requires revised understanding in some places, renewed commitment in others. In addition to an insightful foreword by acclaimed poet Sofia M. Starnes, these sixty-four poems tell of an intimate, honest reorientation to God's promises.
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I.
Understanding
I am thy servant; give me understanding
āPsalm 119. 125
I say to You, my God and Savior,
I know Your trickā
this holographic mystery place of ours,
the mind-mauling cloud where I lose my daily way
this devious underpinning of my ever fuzzy
stumble through the universe
never got its own day of creation.
TimeāYou made it first and mumās the word,
while seven days of creation-dazzle follow easy,
all rabbits in a hat of wild wizard revelry.
Time
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom
āPsalm 90. 12
No coincidence
that we are born
into piecemeal,
whacked-out time.
We relish talk of eternity,
our momentary glimpses
of the Real,
but nothing suits us
better than time,
sliced, slivered
infinitesimal bitesā
nitty gritty bits
the what happened.
The Created
It is He that hath made us
āPsalm 100. 3
Suppose we take this
as a given, Lord:
You made us.
Then we wonder
once made, are we as
dust mites, incandescent,
flaming brief existence,
to be swept away,
when our cycle is suspended?
No, divinity itself we bear
sometimes hidden, smoldering
in service of our spark,
sometimes out there, blazing
in our remarkably
sinewed frame.
Clearing the Abyss
Happy shalt thou be
āPsalm 128. 2
A puffball of a thousand seeds,
the dandelioning ways of unhappy.
No surprise. And yet not eternityās
promise. Now. Weāll be happy now.
How much must be undone? How
ma...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Foreword
- Marvelous
- Part I
- Part II
- Part III
- Part IV
- Acknowledgments