God

Naming the Snow

“God is an experience,” an old man said as he reached for another cookie.

A Psychedelic Throb

I swear I read somewhere that your uncoiled intestines can reach the moon.

Someday We Will Conjure New Gods to Console Us

We stood by the window and watched the howling dark, even though this isn’t what you should do in a tornado.

Hallucinations and Routines

There will always be demands and obligations, but they do not need me before eleven o’clock.

Prophets

The Joshua tree was named by Mormons who thought they saw their prophet pointing to the promised land.

Someday We Will Invent Kinder Gods and New Miracles

Yesterday in twenty-first-century America, I idled behind a jeep with an InfoWars license plate.

The Corners of the Ceiling

“Science shouldn’t explain everything,” she told me.

A Fleeting Shape Glimpsed From the Corner of the Eye

My first memory of God: I was five or six years old and feverishly rubbing a white crayon into a dark blue piece of construction paper.

Tomorrow's Gods

Desert Cadence

The desert is a land of religious vision, the home of desperate saints and ascetics dragging themselves across the sand in search of revelation.

Ecce Homo

Maybe it's limbic and hardwired, this desire to see the divine rather than hear or touch.

Eve

Pray

To Believe in Something Otherworldly in 2020

Grace

This morning in the park, I sat across from a woman who was talking to the pigeons gathered around her feet.

Unless people are exploding in the streets.

Desecration

Accretion

Dark

Diners with fritzing neon that you can hear.

Avalanche

The Names of the Lights Overhead

Space

Doubt

Kneel

Quiet

Denial

Stay Wild and Free

Cross

Pattern

Bow

Ghost

The service was purely tonal.

Cathedral

Scenes from America’s Taj Mahal

Notes from an accidental visit to a temple in West Virginia.

The Logic of God