Monthly Archives: June 2019

Ghosts reading people stories

Posted on June 30, 2019 by Maren

(Having a hard time with the 4th this year suite — poem 2) I have a sweatshirt with little ghosts — the kind like white water droplets with faces and they’re sitting around a campfire with a grandma ghost reading … Continue reading →

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Prayer with Omar

Posted on June 29, 2019 by Maren

Omar has asked for our prayers. My friend has visited him in the Adelanto Detention Center, where he waits, a gay man from Senegal seeking asylum in this country. They laughed and cried and they prayed together. His next hearing … Continue reading →

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Why I was turned down for the DAR

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Maren

(Having a hard time with the 4th this year suite poem 1 — sometimes I just know there will be more) I only asked as a joke, you know — but it was true. Though most of my ancestors came … Continue reading →

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Guest Post — Yosimar Reyes

Posted on June 27, 2019 by Maren

Yosimar Reyes names himself an undocuqueer poet in Los Angeles and I often am privileged to be reprint his work here. I would give just about everything in the world to have no reason to share his work except for … Continue reading →

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Prayer for the immigration crisis (an homage to Gerard Manley Hopkins “God’s Grandeur”)

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Maren

My little hand holds (and not the great world) the small shining of shook foil and there is no beauty that I see, only the blankets on children detained — alone and frightened, cold, and without care, without — O … Continue reading →

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Pride

Posted on June 23, 2019 by Maren

Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else … Galatians 6:14 God who gives pride to those who have been discounted — raising up a rainbow of … Continue reading →

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Lance and Christine Muteyo appointed as International Global Servants in the American Baptist Church

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Maren

I am delighted to announce that Lance and Christine Muteyo — well known to my blog readers and readers of  Pilgrim Press publications — Gifts in Open Hands, From the Psalms to the Cloud, and A Child Laughs — Prayers … Continue reading →

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Confession of a Colorless Person (Juneteenth, 2019)

Posted on June 19, 2019 by Maren

I have expected melanated people to paint their colors on my canvas — as if I had a right to all of them, defining myself as “white” the ultimate gathering of all tints and shades and hues. Don’t forgive me, … Continue reading →

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More than one interpretation

Posted on June 18, 2019 by Maren

I am in a Corinthian atrium dedicated to headless statues — creations that allowed each first century purchaser to attach their own face, or one of a distinguished visitor, a lover. I wonder whether this is the very earliest of … Continue reading →

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Guest Post — Heather Kelly

Posted on June 13, 2019 by Maren

I am always grateful when Heather Kelly, from Invercargill, Aotearoa, New Zealand shares a poem with me and I can share it with you, an in doing so remind all the world of the beauty and mystery of autumn, now … Continue reading →

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