Touch the Earth

Foreword by Pádraig Ó Tuama Part I: Journey I. Students Touch the Earth Take Nothing Shake the Dust In Their Garden House of Hunting, House of the Hunter Silence Disrupted We Feed Each Other Leftovers Streets Is Talking Crazy Talk Soter, Pt. II Inner Circle Transfigured The Tragedy of the Disinherited Human Hands And What of Greatness? With or Against Like Flint A Rebuke The Call in Three Movements II. Neighbors Squad Up A Harvest of Dreamers Romulus and Remus Instructions for the Freedom Struggle Maledictions Power to the People To Live and to Live On Apokalypsis (Tell Me) Touch Yo' Neighbor Nobody Talks About the Road For Those Who Choose to Sit III. Prayer A Certain Place Curious Observation Pray Then Like This Imagine, or, Suppose Thoughts on Asking, Seeking, and Knocking Ode to Pop Silenced This Haunted House Redemption Blessedness The Sign of Jonah Washing Dishes Weightier Matters When the Truth Insults Me Monuments IV. Hypocrisy Meanwhile Hypocrisy Eyes on the Sparrow Blasphemy Ode to the Savings Account Pigeon Economics Four Boys Miles When the Rain Comes V. Tyrants There Are Pontius Pilates in Every Age Survivor's Guilt To Become a Flower Which Lives? Don't Despise Small Beginnings Eschatology Ask Them Why Foxes A Lament for the Prophets We've Killed VI. Dinner Guest Thanksgiving Etiquette Lex Et Ordo Breaking Saint Coltrane With Strings Attached I Am a Conflict-Free Zone We All Eat These Bags Salty Ghazal VII. Found For the Ones Called Lost This Side of the Pasture To Be Still Is to Be Found There is a Great Joy That Waits Prodigal Give Me My Share Distant Country Brink When I Came to Myself Rehearsal Where the Road and Sky Shake Hands Like a Slave VIII. Economics Rich Man Situation Ethics Interrogating Mammon For the Love Wishes Dog Spells God Backwards Threshold When the Prophets Come IX. Kingdom Come Stumbling Blocks Be on Guard If Another Disciple Sins Pine-Sol and Gospel Music Every Living Thing Was Once a Seed Gold Star For I Am Like Jonah Kindness Travels Roses for God The Faces of the Blessed The Kingdom of Trees Ordinary Days Remember Lot's Wife Aetos X. Mercy The Virtue of Annoyance When Hatred Goes to Church Facing Heaven Blocking Blessing Even Infants What Must I Do? Mortally Impossible Comprehension What Do You Want Me to Do for You? XI. Reparation Wee Little Man Tree Climbing I Think It Was Brunch No Repentance Without Repair The Waiting Game Part II: Jerusalem XII. Triumph Beast of Burden Hosanna Singing Rocks The Last Frontier Flipping Tables XIII. Questions Haiku: Unanswered Beautiful Rejection Machinations Give to Caesar In the Age to Come For the Sake of Appearance XIV. Warnings Butterscotch Hard Candy Building Campaign Before It All Ends Imminence When the Powers of Heaven Shake Sometimes Death Comes N.Y. State of Mind XV. Passion 30 Pieces Upper Room Eucharisteo This Is My Body This Cup Towel and Basin The Kingdom Is Ours Sifted Two Swords A Stone's Throw Kiss of Death Peirasmos Like a King Death Row Trial #1 XVI. Death Death Row Trial #2 Death Row Trial #3 Death Row Trial #4 Via Crucis: Sweet Blackness Via Crucis: Daughters of Jerusalem Via Crucis: Two Others Forgive Them, Father The Ninth Hour Spectacle Saturday XVII. Resurrection Under the Ground Emmaus Paranormal Activity Fish Fry Ascension Acknowledgments