out for lunch

‘Needs Met’ was first published in Side Stream. Please forgive the quality of the scanning, I will redo it when I receive a copy of the book. And for those of you who may be interested this is what the original version of the poem looked like. The editing and re-working of the poem was [...]

Of all places that this could have happened it was the toilet paper section. Too much Mexican food the very evening that late night out-of-town guests were arriving. He resented being told ‘you used it, you replace it’. Cranking up his beloved F150 he rushed into town determined to be home before his wife’s guests [...]

Sunny and the Potter My name is Sunny I’m nothing nothing at all it took me five years five long years to graduate and gain my high school leaving certificate. Sunny you are fearfully and wonderfully made1 you are the work of my hands.2 Oh, people were proud of me everyone was except my Dad [...]

I still remember when Mummy and Daddy slept together when we ate together and sometimes played together it was paradise. Then Daddy got angry Mummy started shouting Mummy shouted a lot grown-up words, lots of them I was sleeping when the crash woke me up Daddy left, Mummy cried and cried she had a big [...]

letting loose applying for a job on the telephone those suckers are hard to stand on they are likely to break and damage your good shoes but the phone never broke it strengthened me it was a lonely trophy in my den of agony I still take it down polish it and giggle but now [...]

Holy God, we worship you. Invisible God, we know you. As a sacrifice and gift, we receive you. Soak us in your presence, holy Lord. Envelop us in your love, That love that bore your death. Your punishment that was ours. Your peace you gave to us. We worship you, oh holy God. And surrender [...]

I don’t remember how and I don’t remember when But the beautiful and intense presence of the Holy Spirit like a rushing wind swept through our congregation Beyond that wind was something much more special We were blessed with the sweet sweet revelation of a gentle whisper The voice spoke deeply and profoundly Saying ‘What [...]