God/he
a collection of poems by Andrew Kooman
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2011
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note:
the poems "he’s a miserable being", "love", "from the looks of it", "he could kill you", "he is capable", "you put your thumb on it", and "what confidence" were awarded third prize in Utmost Christian Writers annual poetry contest in 2004
the poems "linguistics", "words from God", "one soul in a world of many", "will", "he wakes", and "who knew which words" appeared 2004 in Volume 1 Issue 1 of Rock and Sling
the poem "three snapshots of the Trinity upon Christ’s death on the cross" was short-listed for the Utmost contest in 2006
in 2009, the poems appeared in a limited, handcrafted book of poetry which Andrew sells online at andrewkooman.com
a
heart
is a hard
stone
to turn
Table of Contents
he’s
slippery as a fish
linguistics
one
soul in a world of many
he
wants to be sure
words
from God
an
initial stanza of restless
sedimentary
layers
the
rulekeeper
he
is flammable
permission
to speak
blindness
appleskin
a
second stanza of
restless
papershred
thinking
inventory
shitkick
chorus
temporary
freedom
the
blackness inside himself
fury
he
is spent
a
third stanza of restless
prayer
resolve
dare
he
reminds himself
waterside
transfixed
the
words he uses
the
things in this world
passion
for inwardness
the
first gouge
1958
invocation
sliver
his
own words
this
same wind
will
contemplating
the suffering at night with Conrad
the
value of a word
the
passion of inwardness
haunted
he
wakes
emergence
loneliness
grief
afterthought:
the things in this world
the
morning after
making
face
the
darkness
in
the quietness
a
fourth stanza of restless
he
has changed
faith
tracing
visitation
who
knew which words
bloodhound
God
of regrets
the
soul
you
put your thumb on it
God
in this room
espoused
he’s
a miserable being
from
the looks of it
he
could kill you
fullstop
all
the reasons not to
amnesia
he
is capable
love
premonition
a
first stanza on suffering
oh
how the children have fallen
three
snapshots of the Trinity upon Christ’s death on the cross
imagining
Jesus’ poetics of suffering, in two stanzas
an
inventory of God
aubade
you
came swinging
he’s
slippery as a fish
loves
me loves me not God
God
practicing smoke rings
you
spent all this time
birth
impartation
he’s
a trickster
the
trinity on man
seed
greenthumbGod
in
all
poema
pentecost
beautiful
tears of God
making
new
that
word of honesty
what
confidence
/he
Gird
up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare
to me.
– Job
38.3
he’s
slippery
as a fish
slips away into the
deep
just when
you think
you got him
wriggles out from
hands excited by
the
catch
he
likes to hold
his
breath
under water
as
a linguist
concerns himself with
syllables
thinks about
palate
placement of tongue
he looks at his life
or those
parts he is
able to see
there are words
he does not yet
know
a language he
hears but cannot understand
or
speak
he imagines a
new vocabulary of
being
he
sees himself
slightly
like a soul
caught in too much
skin
finds himself
remembering
smells
page
numbers
names of streets
chance memories
moments
with
no apparent significance
sits over these memories
with
a fishing pole
longing to hook
a silver fish
he
wants to be
sure
his life lines up
is not
two different
things
or three
he
thought
words from God
would quiet him
unfold his
mind
like one clean
cloth
nourish him
until Friday
he
lies
there
quiet
in the dark
longing for
touch
a
name
a face
he does not yet know