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.