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  • Ten Titles Missing Their Poems

    No One Ever Knew The Density of Love Wanderlust The Cordovan Cocktail My Misspent Couth Eyes Haggard and Cavernous Umbilicus  Tinsel Leasing a Heart  The Exorcist's Widow Has anyone seen them? Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All… Continue reading

  • At the Museum

    "They have so many rooms over here,"a little girl observes to her father. Yes, they do, young one.So many rooms,and so big,and filled with so many wonders. You've seen bone-built dinosaursand birds three times your size,a grizzly with knives for… Continue reading

  • God Speaks Simply

    God said: You do not speak for me.I speak simply; you do not. Twitter of sparrows,creak of tall trees,hiss of blown snow,scrape of dry leaves,silence of stars. Laugh of a child,sigh of a lover,touch of a friend. I speak simply.… Continue reading

  • Discover Your Silence

    Discover your silence. Recover God. Text and image © 2010 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.     Continue reading

  • Song Lyrics

    Why do some song lyrics stick with us? What process determines which ones run over and over at the threshold of consciousness? Is this a process governed by the subconscious? It could be that the lyrics that stick are the ones… Continue reading

  • The Love of Snow

    It is snowing–big, wet flakes coming out of a gentle, quiet, gray sky. There's no anger in this snowfall, nothing being whipped, thrown or driven. It's simply snowing. It's snowing simply. This snow invites: "Watch me," it says. "Enter me;… Continue reading

  • The Credenza Incident

    Getting ready for work one morning, I came out of the bedroom to find Willy half under the credenza in the dining area, only his back half visible. I stopped. He lay absolutely still until I said his name: "Willy?"… Continue reading