sighing pines whispered scripture loud enough to ease your mind and it almost worked distant fires sent up clouds of smoke and burned your father’s portrait and treasured rites
eunice every riverbend tells me how you longed to die and still flows with the memory of your mother’s lullabies surrounding you what could you do
christian life earns the right to have a house not made with hands in the crimson snow scarlet plumes dancing through the dawn but god will be here soon and the water’s warm