This Constant Yearning – Mar. 18, 2022
We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from His warm bodyfully explains this constant yearning. –Hafiz, The Gift, translations by Daniel Ladinsky, p. 116
Fragments – Jan. 8, 2020
And so we take the ragged fragmentsthe patches of darknessthat give shape to the light;the scraps of desiresunslaked or realized;the memories of spaces of blessing,of pain.….And so we lay them at the threshold, God:bid you hold them, bless them, use them;ask you tend them, mend them,transform themto keep us warm,make us whole,and send us forth. […]
