May 26, 2018 | Alexandrine, Daughter, Grief, Gus Stevens, Hexameter, Mom
There are moments that poems are unworthy of. Like the photographs that can never truly show the setting sun nor capture the new fallen snow. Their radiance flattened; their laughter hollowed out. Our highest metaphors blaspheme both life and love; all our symbols...
May 6, 2018 | Gus Stevens, Terza Rima, Triptych
This triptych poem can be read in multiple ways; in a sense, it is six smaller poems woven together to make a whole. It can therefore be read vertically (discussing three objects: wood, stone, and water) as well as horizontally (discussing three times: dawn, noonday...
Apr 9, 2018 | Daughter, Gus Stevens, Sonnet, Victorian Sonnet
Your milk-fattened fingers, sticky with joy, dirty the fold of my shirt, and you squirm, unaware that you might be dropped. Twice now you’ve made me panic thinking I’d lost my hold on your wriggling belly when your head suddenly flopped to one side. Little...
Dec 24, 2017 | Bible Story, Corona, Gus Stevens, Letters to the Churches, Sonnet, Victorian Sonnet
EPHESUS These are the words of the first and the last who holds the seven stars in his right hand. The cloudless mornings now are overcast and the first light of your golden lampstand though not yet a shade, now darkens, dwindles. You know the heft of love and quiet...
Dec 20, 2017 | Advent, Bible Story, Corona, Gus Stevens, Letters to the Churches, Sonnet, Victorian Sonnet
These are the words of the first and the last who holds the seven stars in his right hand. The cloudless mornings now are overcast and the first light of your golden lampstand though not yet a shade, now darkens, dwindles. You know the heft of love and quiet work;...
Dec 20, 2017 | Advent, Bible Story, Corona, Gus Stevens, Letters to the Churches, Sonnet, Victorian Sonnet
The High King has come and he knows your deeds; he knows that you are neither hot nor cold. All this he knows, and still he intercedes as priest before the throne of grace. Behold the man upon the cross. Both God and Lamb. He binds all peoples in one heart and mind;...