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John After Delacroix

Sep 14, 2012 reviewed by Lois Huey-Heck

A Camel through the Eye of a Needle

Aug 17, 2012 reviewed by Lois Huey-Heck

Word: Matthew (The Headless Baptist)

Aug 01, 2012 reviewed by Lil Copan

Peace

Jul 18, 2012 reviewed by Lois Huey-Heck

Images from The Gospel of John, Photographed

Jun 29, 2012 reviewed by Lil Copan

Ruach

Jun 20, 2012 reviewed by Lois Huey-Heck
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Poem

Sea of Galilee: Aerial view

May 16, 2013 by Marci Rae Johnson

From a satellite the Sea of Galilee
looks like my heart, but dark. Jesus

walked beside it one day. He said,
“come I will return the blood

to the empty space.” They say dark
matter makes up most of this place,

which neither emits, nor absorbs light.
From this height the green moss around

the sea masks the fact of mostly desert.
The mountains to the east must be

my lungs. I breathe in the nothing that is
actually everything. Moss from the sea,

full of fish and leaves and other debris
might make its way to me on the jet stream

anchor itself in my esophagus. Jesus told me
to fish in this sea. Cast my net, take up

my boat, because I might bring someone
up out of the water. Someone to fill my heart

with fish and sand. Blood and bark.

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