Poetry & Writings

A Literary Archive

Every poem in Jungle of Faith, gathered in one place. Full poem texts are published here as Tim approves them for release.

Featured: Taking Jane To Chicago

An excerpt from the opening of "Taking Jane To Chicago." The full poem appears in Jungle of Faith.

Fifty-two poems is a lot to take in at once. These four give a true sense of what the collection holds.

A son can't bring himself to sell the house that raised him — or to stop loving it, long after his mother is gone.

A chance meeting on Christmas Eve, and the quiet, almost embarrassed arithmetic of who rescues whom.

Sitting on his childhood bed for the very last time, he becomes his mother for sixty seconds — and finally understands the weight she carried.

The collection's closing poem: a promise that even absence can be its own kind of nearness.

Part 1

A motorcycle ride, a childhood house, a son growing up — the poems that open the book.

Part 2

Reflections from a life in ministry, shot through with humor as often as reverence.

Part 3

The book's later, quieter poems, written closest to the present.