I had a friend ask for excerpts.  I had mentioned in the previous blog how to get to some, but I think I made it too complicated for y'all....

So, here's one:

Proverbs

The Dark Between Subway Stations

lasts too long and seems like nowhere but each nowhere is closer to the somewhere you want to get to, even if it just looks like the nowhere before it.

Planting Seeds and Digging Them Up

at midnight just to look and see how they're doing keeps the roots from ever taking hold.  You've got to bury them and let go.

(original title was proverbs for the 'dark night of the soul' - I didn't mention that in the book, but now you know :) )

Here is a complete list of the sections & the poems in each section, and three of the poems have links so you can read them on the web (at saltsite.com) where they were previously published.

Creation & the Fall On Want/The Dream of the Ridiculous Man Abraham Hammering the Roses/My Ishmael Sarah Last Glare of Sun on Salt: Frozen Like Sarah The Exodus What Is It? Nehemiah The Comfort of Jehovah Elijah Elijah's Daughter Psalms The Fall of Petra Proverbs Proverbs Jonah Stranger on Deck/Un-borne at Sea Jesus No Other Roads/The Middle Thief/Silver Cord Severed/This Moment Judas A Case of Mistaken Identity/Potter's Field Thomas Thomas the Bride Paul Paul Prayers For All the Things We Don't Say/Maker Man