A Good Stretch of Poetry Days

The past few days have been a good poetry days, in a more well-rounded sense--by which I mean, I've been doing more than just writing down a line or two. Let me capture what a good stretch of poetry days looks like:--A few months ago, I had an idea for a poem, Jesus buying a fixer-upper of a house. I didn't do anything with this idea since I first had it (in late April, as evidenced by this blog post). But this week, I returned to it, and I'm really delighted with the surprises that the poem offers.--Yesterday, I read a volume of poems. My students were working through a time management module and had to enter due dates into calendars and planners. I thought they would blaze through the assignment, but only a few of them did. I went back to my office to get something to read.--That book was Donna Vorreyer's Unrivered. What an amazing book! Vorreyer explores themes of aging and the natural world and relationships, and many of her poems have theological imagery and ideas that I didn't…