Easter Snap
On Easter Monday even an undiscovered egg
Seems to shiver under the blue-streaked sky at dawn…
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall
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A Few Spring Poems
The Lion-Winds of March
Wild winds now rise to a Valkyrie’s strength
And dark clouds roar to the hammer of Thor…
By Lawrence Hall
Holy Week
We make a muddle of Lent and Holy Week
Because we’ve made a muddle of our lives…
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall
A Few Winter Poems
The cold has gotten old without Christmas trees
And little lights in all their vestmental tints
No longer counterpoint the dark northern breeze…
By Lawrence, “Mack in Texas” Hall
About a Question Pontius Pilate Asks of Himself
The epistemology of epistemology
Folds back on itself with a supplemental twist…
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall
A Boyhood Friend Goes Down To The River
They listened to the waters and the winds
One more lesson from the river, the eternal flow
Maybe Winter is Tired
The paling sun drops coldly in the west –
False spring in its own turn now takes a rest
No, It Wasn’t The Medications
We did meet again, and we did smile
And so, just so, we all will meet again…
By Lawrence Hall
Pale Shadows and Seasons
Pale shadows and seasons and leaves drift by
The slanting sun of February falls…
By Lawrence Hall
A Rotor-Tiller and the Feast of the Presentation
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Names have not been restored, as Aslan says / Some are pleased to call this Ground-Hog Day / Although there are no ground hogs here / But the Presentation is everywhere and forever
Read MoreResolution for a New Year – or for a New Life, and Cuddled up with Cold Medicine and a Warm Dachshund
By Mack in Texas
Perhaps dear old Puddleglum, who burnt his feet
When stamping out the fires of wickedness
Made a fine new year’s resolution with
“I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can.”
And This the Happy Morn
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall …
No one has yet messed up Advent (aka “The Christmas Season,” which it is not), and so we are spared Advent sales and Advent gifts and Advent movies and news stories babbling about The True Meaning of Advent. Advent is a season that points to the Nativity, not to itself.
Negotiating Toilet Paper
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Dignity, like treaties, can be broken In many ways…
Read MoreSo Fast Thou Growest
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Happy children playing in a roadside ditch / Barefoot and laughing in shorts and tees / A boy grabbing up a frog to frighten the girls/ A girl sloshing the boys with a bucket of muck
Read MoreBecause They Are Young
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Little children attend the school of Creation: / A stick, a caterpillar upon a leaf / A pine nut spiraling down upon its wing / A yellow butterfly dancing autumn in
Read MoreHobbit Day
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … I read that today is Hobbit Day / On the autumn equinox every year…
Read MoreAugust is Unusually Hot – Someone Must be Punished for It
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Having only graduated from high school (I think the quarter-credit for driver’s education put me over the top) I am certainly no climatologist, meteorologist, or vulgar Swedish child, but I am not persuaded of the concept of man-made climate change.
Read MoreLaundry Day – The Solemnity of All Stains
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … The washing machine baptizes our busy days: / A shirt freshly stained with this morning’s coffee / Wrinkledy tees in grimy greens and greys / A child’s blue jeans all sticky with toffee
Read MoreMake Thee Another Self
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … After the Order of Saint Joseph, all men are fathers / Commanded by God to protect all children / Permitted by God to protect all children / Empowered by God to protect all children
Read MoreHoly Smokes: Habemus Papem
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Latins and Sabines may have watched for smoke / From the Vatican Hill across the way / Wondering if a careless shepherd had set a fire / Beyond the Seven Hills of holy Rome
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