My Barefoot Rank

David Craig

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781532633188
• eBook ISBN: 9781532633171
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Religious Poetry
• Index: Literature

Though we are all sorry sinners, not worthy to sing God's praises, we must. The trick is to not let concerns for "Christian stealth" transform us into poets who end up serving a second master. "Platform" has its draw, but we can't let a wide concern for Catholic culture become no culture at all. We can't be so concerned with success that our poems lose their distinguishing content. Jesus is Lord of all the earth.Using a conversational style lifted from Collins and Coleridge, these poems seek to bring a world to light where He has always been alive and active, where he reigns in complete power, worthy of all our praise.May He forgive us all our sins and change us in the twinkling of His eye before our journey ends.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• “Francis was so small
• We are cars on golden blocks
• Fall is here before the leaves know it
• It’s a thin hand
• Silence is old, it’s Scandinavian
• The notes on my wife’s piano pages
• Jesuit high get-together
• We’d stopped at an alligator farm
• Linda says their red eyes are purely ornamental
• The 17 year cicadas are out
• Dishes in the sink, many times
• The Hand that opens flowers
• The size of the church always got me
• October is the pumpkin’s friend
• Old people are brave
• Aren’t you glad someone invented baseball
• The speed with which the old
• We are not worthy, worms
• It’s a potter’s shed, this poetry place
• Mary had a donkey
• Why this attraction to old
• The bronze soldiers of winter
• This cold moon allows for no
• Lawrence Welk’s Gail and Dale sing
• Dark snow, night fields
• “It’s not about cleverness. It’s about life—
• “Landscape with Cattle” by Philipp Peter Roos
• Heaven is a large bird bath
• In heaven the lemonade stands will be better
• This is how it always starts
• If I ran things
• Everything was Calvinist yesterday
• I want to meet Jesus
• Working for mission wages
• Not long off the boat
• Your ship is not going to come in
• The back winter roads in West Virginia
• It snowed again last night
• Where can we go this morning
• The wrong people keep running things
• Southwell’s “Burning Babe”
• Vased twigs spiral upward
• Alberta, you were still teaching us
• Notes