The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil . . . “God’s Grandeur” Gerard Manley Hopkins
Author Archives: CF
News: Girl with Dog
Roses, gathered for a vase, In that chamber died apace . . . This dog only, waited on, Knowing that when light is gone, Love remains for shining. “To Flush, My Dog” Elizabeth Barrett […]
Fallen Leaf
We are surrounded at every instant by sights that ought to strike the sane unbenumbed person tongue-tied, mute with gratitude and terror. “The Face” Franz Wright
Sunbather
You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that’s perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy. R. K. […]
News: Looking North into the Deep
I have to learn alone to turn my body without force in[to] the deep element. “Diving into the Wreck” Adrienne Rich [My 3D image “Into the Deep” appears on the […]
Christmas Light
The host of heaven itself is server of the feast, the feast of light, where he who has released the greatest love becomes the honored guest . . . “The […]
Plaything
You squeezed its leash in your fist, It followed where you led: Tick, tock, tick, tock, Nodding its wooden head. “The Pull Toy” A. E. Stallings
Candlesticks
A row of tall skinny candles burns quickly into the night . . . [t]he little candles poke holes in the blackness. “Season of skinny candles” Marge Piercy
Stalker
You’ve got the poem cornered. It gives up, lies down, plays dead. No more resistance. How easily you could take it into your teeth and walk off with […]
Blueberry Pie
Thanksgiving Day I like to see Our cook perform her witchery. She turns [blueberries] into pie As easily as you or I Can wave a hand or wink an eye. “Thanksgiving […]
Words of Gold
[W]hen a person recites the Psalms, his own breath awakens the Divine Breath in the words. When one recites the Psalms, it is therefore as if King David himself were chanting them. […]
News: The Guardians Join Secret Club
My composite images The Guardians and Secret Club (from the Card Games series) have been selected for the Contemporary Portrait exhibition to be held at the Southeast Center […]
Dino-Moon
A softly lighted window in the air . . . The moon, the ghost of nature, Writes characters of light and shade, Casting the melancholy of her single eye […]
Warp and Weft
The fabric of this dream will tear, So thin and tenuous it is . . . And yet in fragments, here and there The dream persists for all to see: A […]
Lost Horizon
Quantum physics ushers us into a universe that is truly shapeless . . . It is a world of no worldview. The Horizon: A History of Our […]
Dreaming Leaf
Don’t you imagine the leaves dream now how comfortable it will be to touch the earth instead of the nothingness of the air and the endless freshets of wind? […]
Space Station
You can get there from here, though there’s no going home. “Theories of Time and Space” Natasha Trethewey
News: Checkmates
[I]f you go two steps to the right You must take the one down to the left And proceed to the end of the board To wait for the music to rise— “The Chess […]