i wanted to include a few links to some poems i have at the genesisARTS site. let me know what you think.

SENIOR HIT DAY [this poem recounts a tradition we had at my high school where the senior football players got a free hit on a skinny little freshman of their choice. luke mickelson picked me. the deeper issue it addresses is how do we deal with "hits" we take in life? betrayal? disloyalty? jesus took some pretty big hits from those close to him. and i think he did it by just letting himself get hit. he just let it happened, didn't brace or try to protect himself. he just took the hit.]

PHONE BOOTH [this poem came out of a genesis workshop where we were exploring the concpet of grace. the apostle paul maintains that it is the grace of God that, though he is weak, enables him to be strong. i thought that the phone booth, superman's locale for transformation, is a pretty good metaphor for grace, in that sense.]

LEPERS [i wrote this poem as part of talk i did at h2o one thanksgiving. the premise of the story is the band of lepers Jesus healed. only one returned to thank him. the poem kind of extrapolates on the question Jesus asked, "where are the other guys" and implicitly, "why did you come back to thank me?" i think the reason he came back and the power of saying thanks is that it helps us to not grow bitter at the time we have lost being "lepers," being without.]

i think i try to fool myself into thinking i am a writer, but i seem to have the toughest time getting stuff down on paper. anyway, i hope to include some new work in the near future. i would love to have your input and feedback.