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Self-Blessing

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on September 12, 2024| 9 Comments »


for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing
                  —Galway Kinnell, “Saint Francis and the Sow”
 
 
Let this version of me splayed out
on the ground like a wrung out rag
know this moment, too, is holy.
This terrible moment.
When I cannot fathom my own divinity.
May whatever is sacred move through me
so the hand that blesses me
is my own trembling hand.
So the tender voice that soothes me
is my own broken voice.
My own, but not my own.
As wind makes the leaf dance.
As wind makes the branches sing.
I wish it were as simple as being touched by wind.
Is it not as simple as being touched by wind?
Natural as a newborn fawn learning,
in just moments, to stand?

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