Tag: mortality

  • On Un-Becoming God by Mercy Grey

    On Un-Becoming God by Mercy Grey

    God died quietly on a Saturday afternoon.             He died on his back, His vast body unharmed and restful. He fell in a field of flowers. Just as a little girl might press expiring blossoms between the pages of her journal to preserve them evermore, God’s wings fanned out around…

  • The Choice by Michael Cooney

    The Choice by Michael Cooney

    “A choice, made now, today, projects itself backwards in time and changes past actions.”      – Czeslaw Milosz, quoting an unknown disciple of Karl Jaspers I made excuses, rejectingwhat I knew of mortality, eitheryours or mine, and suddenlythe black leaves grew greenwhere they had fallen and you,rapturous with rings on yourfingers,…