Saturday, August 14, 2021

post tenebras (after concealment)

 Mary, so

ordinary 


Held what

we are


Not yet

able to


Imagine —

Her origin


eternal now

and


completion

at once


Come

to light

Friday, August 13, 2021

why there is waiting in emergency department

 You hurt

Are worried

How serious

Is this


“Have a seat, 

Nurse triage

Will be soon

With you”


Then you wait

Some two minutes

Some 30

Feeling a lifetime


Here is where

Practice begins


You cannot help

Looking around

Others nearby


Also waiting

Uncertain, afraid

Inventorying


Do you feel

For them


Wish silently

Them well


Pray for

Them


If you do

Your practice 

Has begun

is ripe


Here’s the secret —


We pray for 

One-another

Because we are

One-another


A practice worth

Becoming


A becoming 

Worth 

Being


Let’s

Emerge

There

Here

Thursday, August 12, 2021

facts

 Yes

We will all die

By virus

Or vaccine

Fire, cancer

Old age or

Car crash

We will

All die —

(Be of

Good

Cheer)

Now, then

What else 

Shall we

Talk about

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

if yes, then no

 Do I have faith? Is

What is happening good, true?

Do I dare affirm?

thinking of clare, her day

Clare and Francis, the way they were. 

 A mendicant (from Latin: mendicans, "begging") is one who practices mendicancy, relying chiefly or exclusively on alms to survive. In principle, mendicant religious orders own little property, either individually or collectively, and in many instances members have taken a vow of poverty, in order that all their time and energy could be expended on practicing their respective faith, preaching and serving society.

Mendicancy is a form of asceticism, especially in Western Christianity. In Eastern Christianity, ascetics are referred to as Fools for Christ.    (Wikipedia)

Their

Respective

Faith 

clear revelation

 Clare knew Francis well

poor peace’d mendicants they loved

as God/Nature shown

Tuesday, August 10, 2021

within silence

 Leave no trace — zen words

pass through everything without

once being pronounced

Monday, August 09, 2021

blank eyes

 unrecognizing

everything becomes unfelt —

decadence unfurls

悲しみと恥 *

 Nagasaki bomb

Showed world how little we care

About other lives —

So the story became save

Our boys kill the Japanese 

….  …   …

* Kanashimi to haji

悲しみと恥 

sadness and shame

Sunday, August 08, 2021

co-monastic

 woman celebrates

meals continuation joy

nears as love nears here

arriving at something

 The lad from Vermont

Travels to this place grandparents

Fashioned from nothing

double fours sevens eights

 when mother father

were born they became today

sevens on eight eight