First Things RSS Feed - Daniel Luttrull https://www.firstthings.com/author/daniel-luttrull en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:56:19 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/daniel-luttrull 60 Rime Ice https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/08/rime-ice https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/08/rime-ice Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0400 He wouldn’t say her memory was lost
But that she was lost in it—the foggy past
Clung to her and calcified to frost
Until, at last, her very present passed
Through this shimmering glass of memory.
He woke once to her sitting up in bed.
The drawl he’d thought she’d left in Kentucky
Returned in whispered words to kin long dead.
“Git up Nell—you, Betty—why y’all asleep?”
“Please lie down, dear,” he said. “They all have left.”
In faithful confusion, she kissed his cheek.
He tucked her in, rolled over, quietly wept,
Then, at a sound, looked round, as if to see
Her silent sisters heed her prophecy.

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]]> Listening to Timkat https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/12/listening-to-timkat https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/12/listening-to-timkat Sun, 01 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0500 I follow her story only in part,
like a man looking from a lit room at dark
hills, silhouetted against navy skies—
his own staring face superimposed by
a ghostly glare from the light of the room.

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