Harold Whit Williams | The Eloquent Atheist

About Harold Whit Williams

William's first poetry collection, Waiting For The Fire To Go Out, is available from Finishing Line Press, and my poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Atlanta Review, Oxford American, Oklahoma Review, Slipstream, Tulane Review, and other fine journals. Also, in my spare time, I am lead guitarist for the critically acclaimed power-pop band Cotton Mather.

Everything Must Go

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Harold Whit Williams

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I keep falling asleep & waking
Up & falling asleep & sometimes

Dreaming & waking up & there
You lay next to that lamp we click Read on…

To Someone Else’s God

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Harold Whit Williams

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First, the Big Bang, now all this, &
Between those stars sparkling

& exploding & all those cells mutating
& splitting & dying, I can’t seem to

Get any work done around here. Read on…

A Fantasia

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Harold Whit Williams

Maybe heaven really is that lush green pasture
We’ve all seen, undulating across countless

Movie screens, those scenes where long-lost
Loved ones & childhood pets slow-motion Read on…