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 […]
Quietness – Feb. 17, 2020
Inside this new love, die.Your way begins on the other side.Become the sky.Take an axe to the prison wall.Escape.Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.Do it now.You are covered with thick cloud. Slide out the side. Die, and be quiet. Quietness is the surest signthat you have died. Your old life was a frantic runningfrom silence. The […]
Calm Me Into a Quietness – July 26, 2019
Now,O Lord,calm me into a quietnessthat healsand listens,and molds my longingsand passions,my woundsand wonderingsinto a more holyand humanshape. -Ted Loder in his book of prayers, Guerillas of Grace
