why God became man? to KNOW us
‘Sit down. Sit down,’ I say. For no one
has shifted personal stance enough for long
to sit where I sit and dangle
ten toes in my shoes and wonder what arrows
are hidden beneath my flesh, ‘sit down. Sit down.
And do not tell me, but listen. Listen
Even when I am silent. Listen even
When I am speaking in tongues not of humans
Or of angels but of the shadowy
Devils that drug and depress me and drag
Me down to my dark and original sense.’
– Re-entry/ Thomas John Carlisle
life: acoustic & amplified 