An old man feels beautifully broken into prayer by God's presence, and these poems are the shards of that breakage.

Robert Morrison Randolph is professor of English at Waynesburg University. He has been a Fulbright teaching scholar in Finland and Greece, and for twelve years pastored a small rural church near the Monongahela River. He is author of Floating Girl: Angel of War (2006) and The Appalachian Archive (2021).