…soul is the delicate yet durable cloth woven …
The Oranges:
You tell your story to me –
I tell mine to you;
Not all at once,
But in broken pieces –
Breaking open,
Breaking down,
Breaking out!
Memories…
Joyful!
Angry?
Or vacant…
Even new ones formed!
Stories of painful scars;
But ones that can and do heal –
Empty spaces
That make room
For love and compassion,
The Chocolate:
We come together
In Brokenness,
To be-come Whole –
Not by gathering up the pieces
ALONE,
Or to re-piece or
Re-pair the past – No!;…
When I was helping with the preparation for those interested in Catholicism, we used what we called a “journey stick” as a symbol for the group. The stick itself was actually the wood skeleton of a saguaro cactus. It was important because it symbolized the journey of each of us as we gathered together.…
You stand and wait behind our busy small history
Feigning restful and seemingly wistful stagnation;
You generously crop imagined frames of reference
As we ardently persist in our insistent positions!
From a distance we call you “rigid…craggy… majestic… unyielding”
Yet really you flow in tides we’ve barely waded;
Hidden mechanics of violent creativity,
Jutting and crunching drifts of epoch proportion.…
When I was a child, I was not so much scared of the water, but I was not a good swimmer. I can still remember my aunt trying to teach me to swim, and recall the story told (although I myself do not remember the incident) of when I was young, perhaps 5, while surf-fishing at Grand Isle, I almost drowned. …
The Gaze looks out from itself; but not really…
We blink in the mirror and what do we see?
Is it me, you, them, us, we?
Broken images can make the best of friends
Passageways of participation cloud clarity
But winds of past loves can be worn as comfort at home
Another world is only a mistaken case of creation
That fails to feel its own self-groaning
We pass each other BY without knowing the way
We pass INTO each other without sight
Yet a star stifled will still shine its invisible rays
Marking the only real transmission of Truth!…