The heart of my vocational life is to bear authentic and courageous witness.

Cycle

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The month has turned
January gotten through
February: hope

Poems by Rev. Marti Keller

A Haiku for October
Advice from a Mourning Dove
After Walking Through a Slovenly Woods (to the best selling author)
Another Decatur Killing
April 2019 Haiku
At the Sherwin Williams
August 2014
Behold the Lily
Bellevue Drive Maryland 1955
Beyond Executive Order
Bird Notes
Blackout Days in Albany
Botanizing (in the spirit of Robert Frost)
Breaking News
Cascade Canyon
Cycle
December Haiku
Double Haiku on the State of my Life and Union
Dropping Out (as recounted on NPR)
Even Still
False Fall
For Emily: Who Also Loved Horticulture
For My Brother Who is an Ornithologist (2)
Guatemalan Table Cloth
Heart’s Desire at 65
January Haiku
July Gratitude (a haiku)
June 2019 Haiku
Just Before My Father’s Last Flight Home from Atlanta
Landscape
Life Lists
March 2012
March 2019
Median
Mercy Killing in the Woods
Misspell
Moving Out Day
Non-Refundable Ticket
November Haiku
Observations at Southwest Atlanta Nature Preserves
On King George Street: Jerusalem, March 2002
Pearl
Portent
Premature
Rally in Georgia: 2003
Second Times (for 25th Anniversary)
Silicon Valley Revisited
Subway Ablutions
Summer Leave
Tedium
Thank you, Virginia (for Room of One’s Own)
The Particular in the Whole (a double haiku)
The Rest of the Days
To my Only Daughter
Transgressions
Tuscan Oil
Two Frames for 2010
Unsettled
Urban Woods in Early Winter (from “Thinking in Haiku”, 2017)
Winter Cleanse
Woodland Chores
Would Not Have Otherwise Noted

Thinking in Haiku

Rev. Keller's latest book of poetry, Thinking in Haiku (CreateSpace, 2017), uses the structure and form of haiku to capture both the natural world and contemporary everyday events: scooping coffee, visiting the eye doctor, hanging curtains in a gentrifying apartment. Rev. Keller has come to "think in haiku," viewing and commenting on the world around her in a stripped down syntax, translated into this poetic genre — in what has become a powerful spiritual practice.