Poetry and metalworking …

… Welder of Words | Commonweal Magazine. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

This collection contains some of the best poems he has written. I was so moved by its first few poems that I had to set the book down after each one. “On the Sorrow God Pours into the Little Boat of Life” is a heart-wrenching poem about Fairchild’s grief in losing his son and about a stranger’s kindness amidst that sorrow—the “awful rowing toward God / in a hard rain” that life can often be. (The collection’s epigraph is from Philo of Alexandria: “Be kind to everyone you meet, for they are fighting a great battle.”)