Getting Joffree on the podcast is always a blast of fresh insights. This giant Brazilian has just published a gem of a work! It's brief, but its brevity encompasses the longevity of the human experience. Poetry on pipes and martyrdom, food and manly churchmen.

I think this is just in time for Father's Day. Ladies get two joys in purchasing this for their husbands/sons:

a) Men fully in touch with their masculine whole.

b) Men who think poetically about life.

Made In The Image: Plain Poems by Joffre Swait

To wield a world, to work a deed,

To speak it soft or stern, at need,

Whether with much chanting, or cheering with delight,

Or thundering strength forth from the height,

This is to gods only given, and getting should be dear.

But the Lord of love, who allows no peer,

Has untwisted our tongues and tooled us new,

To wield our words and whole worlds hew.