As if I were the Dead sea,you forgot meand left me readingthe palm of a dead citySearching for my destiny . I still breathe my longingFor you, and I still miss you.How do you expect meto teach a drowned cityhow to swim with meto you, or how to takeme instead of you. If I learn […]

Psalms of the Wisconsin Dells Our car’s gone! She says to herselfbut loud enough for our double room. Forehead to the glass, the sun slantsthrough the window, longingfor a place where souls commune…

The Cost of a Single Slip Photo by Marianna Smiley on Unsplash Damageda marriage of many yearsnow, shadows of what once waslingering lint that clingsthis is what the future brings Longingfor what once waslike a lapping wave, reachingfor the shore it can’t grasphope keeps it trying Sadnessfilling days with regreta bitter taste that lingersin a dog that atewhat it should not have tasted Alonetoo many days and nights in silencea single grain of sand clingsholding on to a warm body…

…deep inside of me Image courtesy of Adobe Stock This is the hour, this is the ritualthere is an ache, deep inside of mewhere no-one can ever seean almost unbearable longingfor something, or …

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Of all the eventsthrough all of history,why them? LütjensLindemannBismarck What special powerdo they hold? SmithMurdochTitanic Capturing an imagination,fuelling an obsession HollandToveyHood Hours of research,miles travelled LeachWake-WalkerPrince of Wales Is it in his DNA,this need to connect?Years pass,memories fadebut still he clingsto these names BeyBurnettScharnhorst Lifebelts anchoring himin the past. DönitzTallboyTirpitz Family connectionsto a world that once wasan unconscious longingfor

We are the thing only stories can tell.Your eyesHiding a sufferingOn the insideMy handsNever reachingBut longingFor your skinAnd allThat hides within. We are the things that songs are made for.All …

Film project envisioned by Clough School of Theology and Ministry Professor Hosffman Ospino