Author: Tim

• “Collected Poems”, by Louise Erdrich

  Louise Erdrich constantly indicts the Lord for His “silence”.   As if she expects the next sound, after any line in her poem, would be God answering back.   And I agree.  Repeatedly expecting and then missing His approval is the ache of a hunger that’s not chosen.  It afflicts. She would be happier if…

• Mockingbird

  For Barbara. “I wonder where the mockingbird is from, and where it went.”  You said. You’re Job, I said, when Yahweh sphinxes him for fun. You said “It came a second night but then last night was gone.” Job blanked, I said, on when the mountain-goats give birth,He blanked on where Leviathans cross seas,He blanked…

• The Boundered Lip

  My father, from his hospice bed, looked off into the distance and led a church service for an unseen congregation.  I scribbled down his words and phrases as he moved in and out of coherence.   After this,  no more words.  He died a day later.  So son, now come on up and sing, we’ll wait.…

• The Ornaments Grow Wild

  

• On drawing…Walter Isaacson on Leonardo’s “sharpness of eye”

  His curiosity was aided by the sharpness of his eye, which focused on things that the rest of us glance over.   One night he saw lightning flash behind some buildings, and for that instant they looked smaller,so he launched a series of experiments and controlled observations to verify that objects look smaller when surrounded…

• Woodland Bridge On A Saturday Hike With Isaac

  

  Pen, colored pencil.  

• Potter’s Seafood, Oak Island, N.C.

  

  11″ X 14″ Strathmore Vision MM paper Pen, watercolor

• Looking Upstream From a Footbridge

  

  11″ X 14″ Strathmore Vision MM paper Pen, watercolor    

• Roots

  

  Arches 10″ X 14″ Cold Press, Watercolor.

• Meister Eckhart: “…I cannot be a heretic…”

  “I can be in error, but I cannot be a heretic, because the first belongs to the intellect, the second to the will.”