Tag: David Harrity
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On Prayer
David Harrity After Hebrews 12:18-29 Who will walk away holding the pieces of my life? These petitions simple forms of desire or disease. Will this ever grow to something I can touch? A darkness. A trumpet. A tempest. A fire. Ingredients to make an easier belief? No, simply moving pieces of our lives. And what…
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In Your Prison
David Harrity Ask for your father’s life and it will be given to you. But treacheries and dreams may be your only inheritance: proud shocks of wheat bowed down, dancing stars— a ladder of smoke. Which will you write down? Learn to scatter wolves, the thimbleful of evil in your brothers. Believe that what seems…
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Etymology
David Harrity Try to remember what he taught you: to find North in stars, to drive a nail to wood, to clench a fist to stone, to follow through against the iron of a cheekbone. You may have been a boy, but you remember. That ragged town of coal; a life lived in whistle trills.…