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The Ragged Psalmist

Stephen T Berg

Ragged psalms, blue-collar poems, and goodwill bulletins; mosaics for suffering the world, honouring the earth, and shadowing the divine.

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Lit-up Blues Soaked Prayers — Thoughts on The Ragged Psalmist by Carla Funk

Capacious of heart and clanging the cage-bars of the broken earth, these poems sing the full-spec...

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Thanksgiving

Harvest 2011 — Stony Plain, Alberta

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O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good:
for his mercy endures forever.  - Psalm 138


Give than...
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America — Reasons to be Cheerful

Long Beach — Tofino, B.C., 2026

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It all looks pretty bleak, Al said; you’ve got to take a break from the train wreck of raging stories not to end up in a...
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The Tedious and the Astonishing

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The man shaking his fist behind his windshield,
behind his pulpit, behind his generals, 
behind his ideology — bloody tedious.

The Left,...
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Freedom

Our old cabin

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I remember the dazed sparrow, its grave error 
in flying down our cabin chimney, 
leaving it trapped and thrashing about 
in t...
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    Disappointed hippy, approximate monk, rag-and-bone writer, blue-collar poet. Author of There Are No Small Moments and Beacons, Blues and Holy Goats.

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