The Lost Baseball

Published on March 25, 2025

for Gavin

Winter’s left shambled the split rail fence.
Notched stobs, years sunk

in the tallow shank of Linville Creek—
distraught with runoff, though little snow—

In his hands, the Bible was a living, aching, burning thing.

By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.

The Bible employs many merisms, in which two contrasting words stand in for a whole spectrum. “Male and female” is one of them.

Lately I’ve been feeling the same emotions I felt when I deconstructed my evangelical faith.

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