If You Love – July 22, 2020
You might quiet the whole world for a second if you pray. And if you love, if youreally love, our guns willwilt. –St. John of the Cross, Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, trans. Daniel Ladinsky, p. 317
The Essence of Desire – July 21, 2020
I did nothave to ask my heart what it wanted,because of all the desires I have ever known just one did I cling tofor it was the essence ofall desire: to know beauty. –St. John of the Cross, Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, trans. Daniel Ladinsky, p. 314
Different Needs – July 20, 2020
They Have Different Needs Some seeds beneath the earthare dormant.They fell the last time the cool airturned the leavesgold.Those seeds have different needs than we do;let them go about their lifecompletely unharmedby your views.We have cracked open, we sensedeven beneath the earth—the holy was near,and are reaching up to knowand claimlightas ourself. –St. John of […]
What We Need Is Here – July 16, 2020
Horseback on Sunday morning,harvest over, we taste persimmonand wild grape, sharp sweetof summer’s end. In time’s mazeover fall fields, we name namesthat rest on graves. We opena persimmon seed to find the treethat stands in promise,pale, in the seed’s marrow.Geese appear high over us,pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,as in love or sleep, holdsthem to […]
