Where Is God by Jo VonBargen
I absorbed your lovespeakand woke from the deadfor a year, thenpoof, you were gonethe great bridge of skies didn'ttake me to you...I would have come, though,had it meant sailing the sewersmy strength,...
View ArticleMy Testament by Jo VonBargen
This idea, this memory, this hope that glimmers in the shell of my mind Like mother-of-pearl, like ground-glass powder, like a snail-track… Is not a lamp in some office, in some church carefully...
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When you breathed your lastI willed us to be in the old apple orchardwhere wind would sweep in with anew surge of lifeBut here were only a bright tangle of memoriessinking, foundering -and it was no...
View ArticleWinging It In Eagle River by Jo VonBargen
what's a girl like you doingat McDuffy's Hotel allalone in Alaska, forGod's sake, askedthe plumberI'm havingan adventure, said I, noteven sure that waswhy, gazing out at the lonelinessof black crows...
View ArticleThe Altar Boy By Jo King VonBargen
The Altar Boy 0 Comments THE ALTAR BOYLong years ago, two differentlands met, on the shaky,quite shaky bridgeof the heartand promptly fell offto the depthsThis land had knowledgeof the heart, its...
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