Category: Creative Writing

A Surf Session for Sam

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I wrote this piece back in 2002 about my brother, and found it while I was going through some of my old work while I was doing some spring cleaning today. As teenagers we would spend most of our summers up and down the coast in San Diego surfing. This poem is based of a […]

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Lenten Hymn

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(See sources below) Lenten Hymn Midwinter frost on the predawn window peers out into darkness through the mists of time to Sinai’s mountain; where the darkness of God roars from the secret place of thunder, the sound of boulders crack and tumble over the cobblestones of a storm-tossed shore. Moses recalls the consuming Fire of […]

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Zeno’s Nocturne Hymn

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Sometimes words stalk me in the middle of the night. There’s some stuff I have been mulling over for a while now and I suppose that the subconscious pools bubbled up to the surface and woke me up. So, I wrote. In the end all art is theft (I think I stole this line as […]

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Perception and a Poem

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There is a language that God has spoken in all things, in people, in nature, in experience that I long to see and hear and express. So I reach out and try to connect these to metaphors and narratives and sketches like a journalist reports the news. As I approach the completion of The Damned […]

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Extrusion – The Creative Process

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Hemingway once noted to the effect how he loved being a writer, but that the paperwork killed him, and I definitely identify with that. As I continue to grapple with the act of creating, I have been thinking a great deal about what that act is, and what it feels like. There is nothing easy […]

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