Idiot Psalms

A new collection from one of our favorite poets. Fourteen "Idiot Psalms," surrounded by dozens of other poems, make this his most challenging collection yet.


"Idiot Psalm 1"


O God Belovéd if obliquely so,


 dimly apprehended in the midst


 of this, the fraught obscuring fog


 of my insufficiently capacious ken,


 Ostensible Lover of our kind—while


 apparently aloof—allow


 that I might glimpse once more


 Your shadow in the land, avail


 for me, a second time, the sense


 of dire Presence in the pulsing


  hollow near the heart.


Once more, O Lord, from Your Enormity incline


 your Face to shine upon Your servant, shy


 of immolation, if You will.