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Deus Absconditus (After Psalm 88)
When all is well it’s easy to confessYour goodness Lord, but when you disappearCapriciously ignoring our distressYou leave behind despair and numbing fear.Where now the gracious Giver of all...
The Cloud of Unknowing
Despite the doubt and forked ambivalence,Approach, avoid, ignore, yet hope to shareIn some impossible benevolence,To care and not to care my muted prayer;Despite the years of practiced lassitude,And fearful...
