Have you heard
the sweet birdsong
in the flame?
Such fierce gentleness
igniting the
yearning.
…Shrill, still, imperfection…
Rising incense
from singed wings
praise the skies
tpt 1/31/2019…
Star Stuff Apertures
“Are there really more atoms in my eye than stars in the universe?”
Star Stuff apertures
look to the night-sky…
Mother and Child
embrace as the dark
How comes this
strangely familiar…
Longing that grows
and refuses to die?
A cosmic coin
flipping forever,
Flashing and sparking,
waiting to land…
On a star whose light
has still to arrive.…
Huamantla Moon
Fullness surprises
gasps – red rising!
A stroke, a fall
corn moving the dark
What Soul lingers
across the skies
Blinding lamps
on fastened faces?
Holy Stars
dot the ceiling
In naked stirrings
of Life underneath…
Night of No Sleep
creeps in the Cold
Streaming tears for
Huamantla Moon!…
PLACING TRUST
Does God exist outside of us? That would depend on the definition of probably every word in that question. Without doing that, let me rephrase the question…”Where do we experience God?” Or maybe even more to the point, “How do we experience God?” …
OTHER CHRISTS
Today’s Gospel selection (Mt 11:11-15) may seem a bit odd. First Jesus seems to venerate his cousin, John the Baptist, but then ostensibly casts John in a less than exuberant light:
“Amen, I say to you,
among those born of women
there has been none greater than John the Baptist;
yet the least in the Kingdom of heaven is greater than he.…