By Alan Altany From my computer and desk in this white-walled home office with Grunewald’s “Crucifixion” and “Resurrection” on one wall, an icon of Christ, crucifix, and photos of my kids and dog on another, this is my place to launch voyages in the geography of time, space, and even eternity. This is the hinterland for my work in writing poems about God and ants, sloth and saints, melancholy & mysticism, wherever my mind and imagination take me through time and into the breach of eternity’s saturation of the finite; this is my satellite orbiting earth, my mountaintop monastery, my daily pilgrimage of going nowhere. From this solitary place come visions, for “your cell will teach you everything”; silence and strokes on the keyboard, soulfulness and simple love are here for creating a godly-driven experiment of emptying my petulant ego-drama, a place of gritty and painful grace under a spinning, overhead fan, as I leap & plow into mysteries where here and eternity are one. Alan Altany, Ph.D., is a septuagenarian college professor of religious studies. He’s been a factory worker, swineherd on a farm, hotel clerk, lawn maintenance worker, small magazine of poetry editor, director of religious education for churches, truck driver, novelist, etc. He published a book of poetry in 2022 entitled A Beautiful Absurdity: Christian Poetry of the Sacred. His website is at https://www.alanaltany.com/.
Alan's previous work on Foreshadow: The Seven Deadlies (Poetry, October 2022) Grunewald's Crucifixion (Poetry, September 2022) Habit of Being Wise (Poetry, October 2022)
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Janet Juhlin
12/4/2023 02:30:27 pm
I think I understand this one. Are you OK? I like you to come over and visit anytime you would like. We are always home.
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