Shadow placed at my feet like a cat’s gift.
Archive for the ‘Prayer’ Category
Offering
Posted in Natural World, Prayer, Spirituality on May 27, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
Broken string
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Israel, Prayer, The Soul on October 12, 2023 | Leave a Comment »
-in memoriam for the more than 1300 Israelis murdered by Hamas militants this week and –in honor of the courage of the remaining Hamas hostages Captors cover my eyes, disorient dismember one by one, leave open my ears to vibrations of panic and despair. I percuss the beat of the wish for death, frantic shallow […]
Salvation
Posted in Natural World, Pacific Northwest, Prayer, Religion, Spirituality, Waterfall on May 31, 2023 | 1 Comment »
I seek a larger congregation, ceiling taller than pines the house of the Lord, you might think, of eagles and the cascading fall spraying snow-melted mist
Grave Song
Posted in Daughters, Fathers, Prayer, Religion, Spirituality on June 8, 2018 | 2 Comments »
I strain to hear your prayers in the song of the wind in the olive trees
Yarzheit Light
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Fathers, Prayer on January 8, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
-Jan 6, 2018 Today is the 19th of Tevet the moon wanes gibbous the indolent sun rouses a mere 8 hours and 37 minutes. It is the dead of winter which could be a metaphor except it is winter and you are still dead, Dad, no bud or blossom gathering nourishment to bloom forth […]