Wounded Fire (2026) is the 5th volume in my series, “Christian Poetry of the Sacred.” The first volume was A Beautiful Absurdity (2022) followed by The Greatest Longing (2023), Intimations (2024), and Poems to God (2025). Wounded Fire focuses upon the nature and character of God, especially in connection with love, aging & old age, being human, the soul, truth, beauty, spiritual vision, doubt, anxiety, addiction, faith, poetry, death, and life.

This book is an invitation to religious and non-religious readers and any spiritual seekers to allow themselves to be found by God, the God beyond assumptions and presumptions. The closer one is to God, the more fully a person realizes who and what she or he is from God’s perspective (to imagine seeing with God’s eye).

I hope Wounded Fire (and the earlier volumes) that is based upon the Christian vision of life & existence will encourage people towards greater awareness of the presence of God in both overt, obvious ways, but also in ways more subtle and sublime. If the first language of God is silence, the second language of God is poetry. Scriptures are often written in poetic form because poetry can reveal realities and truth more deeply and immediately than a prosaic approach. The book questions common ideas about God and portrays God in paradoxical, even strange, ways to go beyond familiar and comfortable ideas into experimental, experiential, existential ways of knowing God as He is, not counterfeit masks of God that distort and distance God from humans. In that sense, it is not safe poetry full of religious platitudes, but risky poetry based upon God wanting intense, personal, intimate relationships with people. I hope readers will be bold enough to embrace that risk.

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