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Wilderness
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Wilderness is a collection of poems chronicling a family's transition from conflict into peace. The structure is free-verse poetry. Written in various points of view, the work uses quotes from The Pilgrim's Progress for names of poems, epigraphs, and section titles.Wilderness has two major parts. The first section deals with the rising dysfunction before the family gives their wounds to God. Marriage stress, mental illness, an absent father, and troubled childhoods create deep complications in this blended family. The central character is the wife/mother, who attempts to manage herself and her home.The second half is marked by these characters undergoing the messy transition into health and spiritual healing. Delving into the inner workings of an American family, Wilderness seeks to excavate a damaged past for the purpose of embracing restoration.
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āShame tells me what men are; but it tells me nothing what God or the Word of God is.ā
The Pilgrimās Progress
Barricades
Burying a father meant I next wrote all the truth but never slant. Imagined narratives collapsed: dead end plots flat characters tiresome dialogue. Deflated words, chewable like tires, were in tortuous details: he got up and opened the door and walked across the room and took the glass of milk. I ruptured with smidgens of imagery, patchworks of conversations, because that tension was mineāugly, authentic. Poems came, current, exquisite, like he is a semi-circle with pores of whiskey. In verse I conjured exotic violence and the irony of politeness, since I swear any other narrative I hounded crumbled to smithereens.
Advocate
My girl goes drum-taut with worry
when her father leaves,
though she sees him only Sundays.
I call my brother Jonathan.
My God, itās just so hard
to not be angry. Her fear never stops.
I cannot keep this up.
He spiraled with venom after Dad died.
Mom, for years, sifted his fury
from his love,
intonating he must choose.
She has you and that will be enough,
he whispers, patient, knowing,
younger by six years.
He shares
his Meyers-Briggs type (INFJ) and love
language (quality time)
when locust-worry gnaws him about the woman
he loves across the country.
Yea, Campbell had me take those tests, he explains.
Heās exactly like my girl.
He was always discerning,
Mom said.
He crumbled the knuckles
of an unwelcomed suitor after Dad died.
Gomer did not come back.
Aralyn has observed her Daddy
could do his job in the same state as her,
he moved away
exactly
when I r...
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- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Borderlands
- 1.
- 2.