Table of Contents
I
Sister Christopher 3
Son of a Nun 4
Forms of Love 5
Post-Confessional 6
Agape 7
Baby Daddy Song 8
Echo 9
Rosary 10
From The Book of Hours 11
Epistemology 12
Lest You Drove Yourself from Your Own Door 13
Bound 14
Things Said to Be Ineffable 15
Biblical 16
Why a Perfectly Good, Almighty, All-Knowing God Permits Evil 17
Circle Jerk 18
Divine Comedies 19
II
My Faith 25
Parenting from Chicago to Abu Dhabi 26
Autism 27
Marriage 28
A Song Means Little Without Separation 29
Love Poem for Ex-Wife 30
Object Lesson 31
You See What You Want to See 32
Unoriginal Sin 33
Naive Conviction 34
Love Poem for Ex-Husband 35
Antidepressants 36
Retreat 37
For My Daughter 38
Halfway Through Life 39
There Is No Doubt 40
Prayer 41
Mindfulness 42
Pastoral 43
Elegy for the Engineer 44
III
Troubadour 47
To Dream 48
Hue and Cry 49
Seasonal Affective Disorder 50
Solitary 51
Meditation 52
Consciousness 53
Dayenu 54
Easter 55
Empathy 57
Christ of the Ozarks 58
Ars Poetica 59
Kindness 60
Critical Thinking 61
Reflection 62
On My Other Mother's Birthday Noble Song 64
Revelations 65
Notes 67
Acknowledgments 68
