Conference call

"God is in the details" or so Mies van der Rohe proposed concerning architecture. And certainly that sunrise-glinted golden dome above the slanting red terrazzo roof beyond my hotel window glass reminds me of just how this may be true. But what about this rumpled bed, this nuisance rash across my skin, this cartilage-torn knee, and all the clash and clamor I encounter as I leave this room? Perhaps he meant it, after all, not as a proposition, but a prayer.

Poets in this issue: Steve Lautermilch's new chapbook, Petals on a Burning Pond, is available from Hour Press, in a letterpress edition of 350 numbered copies. His poems have appeared in Shenandoah, The Anglican Theological Review, and Hampden-Sydney Review, among other places. J. Barrie Shepherd's poetry has appeared in Christian Century, the New Republic, and many other publications. He is minister at The First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York.

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