Backward Mutters

  • Ordinary Prayer 73

    Ordinary Prayer 73

    When I was heart-heavy with bitterness when my sadness soured me in the mess of my mess I bellowed and blew like a big, dumb ox. — Ordinary Prayer 73

  • Poppies

    Poppies

    This rondeau is in honor of Veteran’s Day and is after John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields.” You may listen to me read the poem via the player below. In whitened rows, a hundred score,The graves of soldiers of The WarWho gave their lives, in Ypres fought,Who landed here, broad waters…

  • Music Review: Interloper by Zane Vickery

    Music Review: Interloper by Zane Vickery

    Zane Vickery’s second full-length album, Interloper, is a personal work in which Vickery works to make sense and understand the purpose of his life. The album is a work, and by that I mean it is not a collection of songs, but a rock opera. Opera fits. So does, epic. Or…

  • The Dragon’s Mouth

    The Dragon’s Mouth

    The following poem is inspired by two scriptures: Revelation 12:15-17 which reads, “The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood,” and Luke 22:54-62 which tells of the Apostle’s Peter’s denial of Jesus. In addition, I was also…

  • Keel and Beam

    Keel and Beam

    Here is a sonnet that came to me earlier in the week. You may listen to me read it via the player below. Set as the keel, He was placed between twoEnds, and into His arms, He took His crew;As a ship, He bore them into the seaWithin the hold…