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D. S. Martin
D. S. Martin is poet-in-residence at McMaster Divinity College. His latest collection is Angelicus.
Celtic Knot
What to think of a design as simple & complex as a Celtic knot from the Book of Kells whose outline expresses a paradigm perfectly-balanced ...
September 4, 2023
Drowned Wasp
In chasing what we want we learn
too late our mistake
an ornate cask unable to hold
anything...
August 25, 2022
Sonnet: You could have made
You could have made the worlds grey & lop-sided
a monochrome for flora sky & sea
but your precision made sure none collided
you framed the tiger’s fearful symmetry...
May 25, 2022
An angel critiques Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew and the Angel
The Church of San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome...
April 6, 2021
Sitting on a stone
Angels expect to happen what we’ve been told
will happen unlike you or that old man
overawed by incense & Gabriel’s presence
who stammered ...
April 1, 2020
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Andrew son of Jonah
He’s always been my level-headed son
& so I let him wander the wilderness
after his bruised-reed prophet
since he’d always return to mend the nets...
December 17, 2015
Thomas Didymus
When Mary Magdalene said she’d seen
the Lord it was strangely disappointing
One of the worst women saved from the street...
April 10, 2014
Flamboyance
The wild rose summer’s floweralong the fading path grows sweetthough it only lives & dies to itself& spring’s unseen trilliums in forest shade...
April 11, 2013
What will be
You may sense it in the call of a Canada goose in flight alonging strong enough to carry an entire flock to their destination...
September 19, 2005