The Kingdom of Ordinary Times: Poems

Hurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide, the speaker in these poems wonders: what is the difference between the self and the soul? The secular and the sacred? Where is the kingdom of heaven? And how does one live in Ordinary Time—during those periods that are not apparently miraculous?

Marie Howe is the author of The Good Thief and What the Living Do. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.