Saint Paul Talks Strategy

Saint Paul Talks Strategy

Zach Czaia

So I went down to a potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel. Whenever the vessel he was making went wrong, as clay is apt to do in a potter’s hand, he would remake it in a different shape, such as he thought suitable.  — Jeremiah 18:3-4

It’s a go-to, I’ll admit it,
the potter at his wheel. I say,
‘I’m the stuff in his hands, the clay—
a pot gone wrong, he remade it,
remade me, my life.’ The prophet
knows more than I do. Hearts don’t change
that much from age to age, the range
of feelings the same now as then.
We’re all still waiting for the moment when
these hearts we carry don’t feel so strange.

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Zach Czaia
Poet & Teacher

Zach is the author of a collection of poetry, Saint Paul Lives Here (In Minnesota), published by Wipf & Stock

Photography by Katy Lewis