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J. Pax

J. Pax

3 Reflections

It is not easy being alone with my thoughts. These days we have our magic mirrors and looking glasses. “Mirror, Mirror in my palm, reveal…

Nov 17, 2019

Nov 17, 2019

J. Pax

On any given day, really.

But my memory is short as these intrusions are rutted, and I perhaps remember less of reality than what I believe of reality. “That might…

Nov 17, 2019

Nov 17, 2019

J. Pax

My favorite is Suite bergamasque, III.

It’s the one that sounds like the distances starlight takes to travel, like a wooden boy’s wish, and like the prayer said in Gethsemane…

Nov 17, 2019

Nov 17, 2019

J. Pax

I have obliviated more words than I care to remember.

Oct 6, 2019

Oct 6, 2019

J. Pax

5¶s on Immigration

“Go back home.” I may be the only one in my family who’s never been cut by those words. I have no memory of it anyway, but I remember it in

Jul 17, 2019

Jul 17, 2019

J. Pax

F60.3

They prayed believing that thoughts could save him, prayed to as many gods they could remember until it was just the Moon left to hear…

Jun 13, 2019

Jun 13, 2019

J. Pax

A Trans Hermeneutic on John 21:1–19

Sermon for Columbia City Church of Hope (May 5, 2019)

May 7, 2019

May 7, 2019

J. Pax

A 5¶ Essay to Come Out

1. “Happiness writes white ink on a white page,” said Montherlant, and I’ve always believed him…

Apr 25, 2019

Apr 25, 2019

J. Pax

A Poet Explains Their Poetry

In the time I took to write, I’d traveled a thousand miles. In the shortness of my life, that — I learned — you cannot fight.

Apr 10, 2019

Apr 10, 2019

J. Pax

dare

over here, it’s all rife with folks trying. it’s fine buying this not-yet life. but i think it’s been time for you to be happy.

Apr 8, 2019

Apr 8, 2019

J. Pax

J. Pax

i write poetry. sometimes about mental illness. sometimes about identity. sometimes about god. sometimes about death. i’m there too. it’s confessional.

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