Three Sonnets on Grace

Now Appearing in my Upcoming Book: 'The Mirror and the Dream'

The true Trinity in true unity, Hildegard of Bingen, 1165

Dear Readers,

The time has come to tease out further the news of my upcoming book!

My debut collection of verse will be coming out with Wipf & Stock, under their Resource Publications imprint. It is currently going through the final editorial process. As I receive more precise information about the release date, I’ll let you know here, at The Weight of Form.

James Matthew Wilson and Joseph Pearce, both good friends and literary comrades, have generously condescended to write the introduction and forward, respectively.

I’m very excited about this book. For reasons I’ll explain later, I’m calling it The Mirror and the Dream.

The following three sonnets are taken from this book. (Two of those poems are behind the paywall, but the first one is free!) I hope you enjoy reading them.

I would also like to take this opportunity to say that all founding members of The Weight of Form will receive a free signed copy of the book. If you would like a free signed copy, all you need to do is become a founding member, and then send me your preferred mailing address. Once you have done so, it will arrive on your doorstep (in the fullness of time.)

Three Sonnets on Grace

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“No man hath seen God at any time.”

Invisible as summer’s silent breath
Grace moves always without us; yet we seem
To conjure it, a bright hypothesis
Above the broad and well-lit plain of death
That throws back to the eye each glare and beam,
And blinds with light. In dark antithesis,
Grace is most intimate and wholly Other,
Like points without a part, or breadthless lines,
The subtle basis of our architecture.
The abstract is the concrete’s older brother.
The unknown necessarily defines
The known, beyond all knowledge or conjecture.
Both present and yet inaccessible
Grace in our sight is yet invisible.