When the smallness of my vision Dampens all hope inside, I simply watch And these clumsy feet keep moving. When what could have been Turns bitter and dusty from wear I feel the tiniest move as a miracle. When the bit is cold in my mouth and When daylight reveals only a potholed Road, justContinue reading “epiphany 2026”
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#watchnight2025
What is the taste of a dream in the darkness? How might you carry a dream? In a pocket, a cage or a basket? Tangled in memory, twined round a heart? Where would you keep it for safety? Can you lock up a dream, with a key? Or, should you trust to the light toContinue reading “#watchnight2025”
#adventapertures2025: Christmas Day
Arise, shine, for the rays of God’s glory touch the earth. We welcome the light that burns in the rising sun. We welcome the light that dawns through the Holy Child of God. We welcome the light that gleams through the growing earth. We welcome the light that shines through saints and signs. We welcomeContinue reading “#adventapertures2025: Christmas Day”
#adventapertures2025: day 25
Remembering that it happened once,We cannot turn away the thought,As we go out, cold, to our barnsToward the long night’s end, that weOurselves are living in the worldIt happened in when it first happened,That we ourselves, opening a stall(A latch thrown open countless timesBefore), might find them breathing there,Foreknown: the Child bedded in straw,The motherContinue reading “#adventapertures2025: day 25”
#adventapertures2025: day 24
On the first day of Christmas, they hauled you from me with the forceps while a crimson Santa blinked outside and made the rain new blood. The second day, I washed with frankincense, fed you thin gold, summoned by the high star of your cry. The third day, milk came swaddling-pale, shepherd’s flock white. TheContinue reading “#adventapertures2025: day 24”
#adventapertures2025: day 23
Watch, dear Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight, and let your angels protect those who sleep. Tend the sick. Refresh the weary. Sustain the dying. Calm the suffering. Pity the distressed. We ask this for the sake of your love. St. Augustine So the Wise-Ones were directed from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. Continue reading “#adventapertures2025: day 23”
#adventapertures2025: Blue Christmas
One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long time To behold the junipers shagged with ice, The spruces rough in the distant glitter Of the January sun; and not to think Of any misery in the soundContinue reading “#adventapertures2025: Blue Christmas”
#adventapertures2025: day 21
Silence has its own notation: dark Jottings of duration, but not pitch, A long black box, or little feathered hitch Like a new Greek letter or diacritical mark Silence is a function of Time, the lark In flight but not in song. A nothing which Keeps secrets or confesses. Pregnant, rich, Or awkward, cold, theContinue reading “#adventapertures2025: day 21”
#adventapertures2025: day 20
Sometimes, when we’re on a long drive, and we’ve talked enough and listened to enough music and stopped twice, once to eat, once to see the view, we fall into this rhythm of silence. It swings back and forth between us like a rope over a lake. Maybe it’s what we don’t say that savesContinue reading “#adventapertures2025: day 20”
#adventapertures2025: day 19
I praise you because you are artist and scientist in one. When I am somewhat fearful of your power, your ability to work miracles with a set-square, I hear you murmuring to yourself in a notation Beethoven dreamed of but never achieved. You run off your scales of rain water and sea water, play theContinue reading “#adventapertures2025: day 19”
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