mostly, I don’t get what people mean by prayer

So, the asking: What is prayer?

Prayer is what is.

(Watching and listening.)

Seen and heard.

With feeling and thought.

Inside and inside and inside.

Everything.

no, doesn’t make anyone proud to know them

Crabby people against compassion

I see that cpac is meeting again and flaunting their brand.

salute smartly, and leave

There’s a suggested plan to arm teachers to carry guns in classrooms.

Ok, sir.

Next?

disappearing

don’t
mind
me

spirit deepens as

Body de-
teriorates

eh? ayuh!

Fort Kent freezing rain —

mile zero, bridge to Canada

drenched with forgotten passport

so too with the one we call god

Those that judge you don’t love you.

Those that love you don’t judge you.

Compassion neither judges nor loves —

Only cries with the sorrowful

Only delights with the pure hearted

forgive me brothers and sisters

For I have not practiced root intimate interconnection.

we observe presidents' day

But we have no president.

companeros com flores

Our children in Florida -- May they rest in peace!

nothing is like it

Root intimate interrelationality.

That’s what pregnancy is.

What abortion is — is not so much what conservatives want to call murder — is the interruption of root intimate interrelationality.

It is this rupture that causes grief and unaccountable loneliness afterward.

We are meant to embody root intimate interrelationality — all of us, male or female, animal or human, divinity or species of plant, insect, mineral, proton or neutron.

It is what we are made of and made for.

We long for it.

It is true.