Would God but break it down
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Readiness in light of a simple discernment
Love is not a scrubby little power we muster,
a scrambling to order affairs according to our
own perception of goods (that scaffolding we build
to lift our heart to heaven), but rather
concession of the self to the power that would
remake us, were we to allow it, into the giving
person we always hoped we’d be. I say:
Bring it on!
Where do you take your stand?
Do you look for the place?
Are you in the place?
Wide the circle of the sea
And slow the bobbing
Pebbles are beautiful
Pebbles are enough
Trail of the tossed pebble
An act pulled back
into the mind
Wishing not to be caught
In that fraught
history
Sew the hour
Into your collar
to pay your way
in a troublesome land
Some people are the tall trees
Who hold up the sky
Country morning
Everyone’s out –
The deer, the sheep,
the rabbits, the cows …