Drew Jackson 
Touch the Earth [EPUB ebook] 
Poems on The Way

Foreword by Pádraig Ó Tuama
Part I: Journey
I. Students
Touch the Earth
Take Nothing
Shake the Dust
In Their Garden
House of Hunting, House of the Hunter
Silence Disrupted
We Feed Each Other
Leftovers
Streets Is Talking
Crazy Talk
Sōtēr, Pt. II
Inner Circle
Transfigured
The Tragedy of the Disinherited
Human Hands
And What of Greatness?
With or Against
Like Flint
A Rebuke
The Call in Three Movements
II. Neighbors
Squad Up
A Harvest of Dreamers
Romulus and Remus
Instructions for the Freedom Struggle
Maledictions
Power to the People
To Live and to Live On
Apokalypsis (Tell Me)
Touch Yo' Neighbor
Nobody Talks About the Road
For Those Who Choose to Sit
III. Prayer
A Certain Place
Curious Observation
Pray Then Like This
Imagine, or, Suppose
Thoughts on Asking, Seeking, and Knocking
Ode to Pop
Silenced
This Haunted House
Redemption
Blessedness
The Sign of Jonah
Washing Dishes
Weightier Matters
When the Truth Insults Me
Monuments
IV. Hypocrisy
Meanwhile
Hypocrisy
Eyes on the Sparrow
Blasphemy
Ode to the Savings Account
Pigeon Economics
Four Boys
Miles
When the Rain Comes
V. Tyrants
There Are Pontius Pilates in Every Age
Survivor's Guilt
To Become a Flower
Which Lives?
Don't Despise Small Beginnings
Eschatology
Ask Them Why
Foxes
A Lament for the Prophets We've Killed
VI. Dinner Guest
Thanksgiving Etiquette
Lex Et Ordo
Breaking
Saint Coltrane
With Strings Attached
I Am a Conflict-Free Zone
We All Eat
These Bags
Salty Ghazal
VII. Found
For the Ones Called Lost
This Side of the Pasture
To Be Still Is to Be Found
There is a Great Joy That Waits
Prodigal
Give Me My Share
Distant Country
Brink
When I Came to Myself
Rehearsal
Where the Road and Sky Shake Hands
Like a Slave
VIII. Economics
Rich Man
Situation Ethics
Interrogating Mammon
For the Love
Wishes
Dog Spells God Backwards
Threshold
When the Prophets Come
IX. Kingdom Come
Stumbling Blocks
Be on Guard
If Another Disciple Sins
Pine-Sol and Gospel Music
Every Living Thing Was Once a Seed
Gold Star
For I Am Like Jonah
Kindness Travels
Roses for God
The Faces of the Blessed
The Kingdom of Trees
Ordinary Days
Remember Lot's Wife
Aetos
X. Mercy
The Virtue of Annoyance
When Hatred Goes to Church
Facing Heaven
Blocking Blessing
Even Infants
What Must I Do?
Mortally Impossible
Comprehension
What Do You Want Me to Do for You?
XI. Reparation
Wee Little Man
Tree Climbing
I Think It Was Brunch
No Repentance Without Repair
The Waiting Game
Part II: Jerusalem
XII. Triumph
Beast of Burden
Hosanna
Singing Rocks
The Last Frontier
Flipping Tables
XIII. Questions
Haiku: Unanswered
Beautiful Rejection
Machinations
Give to Caesar
In the Age to Come
For the Sake of Appearance
XIV. Warnings
Butterscotch Hard Candy
Building Campaign
Before It All Ends
Imminence
When the Powers of Heaven Shake
Sometimes Death Comes
N.Y. State of Mind
XV. Passion
30 Pieces
Upper Room
Eucharisteo
This Is My Body
This Cup
Towel and Basin
The Kingdom Is Ours
Sifted
Two Swords
A Stone's Throw
Kiss of Death
Peirasmos
Like a King
Death Row Trial #1
XVI. Death
Death Row Trial #2
Death Row Trial #3
Death Row Trial #4
Via Crucis: Sweet Blackness
Via Crucis: Daughters of Jerusalem
Via Crucis: Two Others
Forgive Them, Father
The Ninth Hour
Spectacle
Saturday
XVII. Resurrection
Under the Ground
Emmaus
Paranormal Activity
Fish Fry
Ascension
Acknowledgments

Drew Jackson is the founding pastor of Hope East Village in New York City. He is also the author of the poetry collection God Speaks Through Wombs. He and his wife have twin daughters and live in Lower Manhattan.