By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … From my own fields I can hear the band / The high school marching band, oom-pah, oom-pah / From several miles away, with merry songs / and merry cheers around the homecoming bonfire
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A garage sale is a rebuke to us all –
The metaphysical finger having writ
Turns now from that lost Babylonian wall
And points at us as if to scribe this bit:… By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall
Join us as we explore Marriage and the Family with a focus on In-Laws and Extended Family. In-laws and extended family can be quite the blessing, or sometimes quite the challenge. In our issue we cover both of those sides, with advisory pieces on restoring relationships with family and personal poetry mourning the loss of beloved in-laws. Our readers can find pieces written from multiple perspectives.
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By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Silence
We paused
We looked
She leaped
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … The heart is a tabernacle upon the Altar
Within it reposes our hopes and dreams
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Do you now, or have you ever… / Worked double shifts or double jobs to pay the bills / Read to your children instead of yelling at them / Had to jump-start your car in the pre-dawn cold…
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A garden is a Department of Metaphysics
Promethean fire and shadows in a cave of light…
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall
On Easter Monday even an undiscovered egg
Seems to shiver under the blue-streaked sky at dawn…
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall
We make a muddle of Lent and Holy Week
Because we’ve made a muddle of our lives…
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall
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
The epistemology of epistemology
Folds back on itself with a supplemental twist…
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … They listened to the waters and the winds / One more lesson from the river, the eternal flow
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By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … The paling sun drops coldly in the west – / False spring in its own turn now takes a rest
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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
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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.”
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.
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Dignity, like treaties, can be broken In many ways…
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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
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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
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By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … I read that today is Hobbit Day / On the autumn equinox every year…
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