Jesus: poems
By David Craig
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David Craig
David Craig was born in Aberdeen and educated there and in Cambridge. He has taught literature and social history in schools and universities in England, Scotland and Sri Lanka. He has published several books on Natural History and Social History, including The Glens of Silence which was published by Birlinn in 2004. He lives in Cumbria.
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Jesus - David Craig
Jesus
poems
by David Craig
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poems
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Table of Contents
Title Page
I.
Thin 19th century gravestones
It’s Holy Saturday
The dog howls when Linda plays piano
Our other dog died, which was harder for him
I still look for him beneath the table
Fr. Bob looks so old at 82
And if at times I feel like Pigpen
Summer looms, a very big peony
Let me pick my berries here
Self-reflexive in the parking lot
The monks have it right
All the help we need
The wind in waves, up the high grassy hill
Let me fit nowhere
Driving through an Amish thunderstorm
I generally ride the giant tortoise
The green tree next door
Who better than the fallen
We walk into a different cave
Refugees must learn what a radish is
You can find better sheep
Your cry has always been small
The deserted part of the city
Pentecost comes but once a year
God delights
Finding Waldo
Wisdom, like an old horse
And this house, as I look at it
Green daffodils, braided soon
Where you live, you don’t
Popes, Poland, and presidents
The future is always too big
Our Miniature Schnauzer, fifteen
My laughter makes the tree whole
II.
The fog outside this morning did not come
My chance for completely clear skin
Praise God for this flat, cold winter sky
I need more money to live in this economy
Let’s have Christmas again this year
I do want to improve
The Virgin Mary, Queen of all the earth
This veil
of tears
Another man singing in the park
We want the king’s fireworks
Little trains at Christmas, little guns
Frost crumples the pumpkin
The world is ending, I read it on the internet
We are not the most important anything
You walk under the trees without me
How can we escape our sins? Who would want to?
Jude wants everyone to go to bed early
Only hillbillies git to heaven
Old friends come back (For Mark, John)
Egg nog spells the season
Notes
"There is, writes the poet, ‘a pretty loud party going on in the other world.’ And with those words David Craig takes us on a journey of spiritual longing where ‘each little moment’ on earth, though suffused with astonishment and love, is only a ‘pauper’s map to heaven.’ Throughout this book, the reader encounters the quotidian juxtaposed with the extraordinary—each and all a wonder. While Craig tells us, we might be