The
stars are wish enough
with
the grass
soft
and cool beneath me,
the
sky, dark,
but
for those
indomitable
lights
cradled
in the expanse
of
something bigger.
Content
to be small
in
the midst of so much
declaration,
I,
the
sky, earth, lit
and
knit together
like
Joseph’s sweater
in
love lavished, brightly
cloaked
favor,
find
truth,
revelation.
© 2019 Jennifer Wagner
Joseph’s
sweater: Joseph’s tunic given to him by
his father in Genesis 37.
from beginning to end, a sequence of breath-stealing lines!!
ReplyDeleteJennifer,
ReplyDelete__ Well seen, your art of word, as that love adds to all; the word wor-L-d, isn't the same without the -L- of Love. _m
words of Love
paints the Love of worLd
each days hope
Beautiful, Jennifer. I love the metaphor of Joseph's sweater...and your reference to the Psalm. (Responding with my defunct google site.)
ReplyDeleteI love it! You always amaze me with what you're able to accomplish with so few words.
ReplyDeleteSuch aching beauty in these lines. What a perfect way to capture a moment of reckoning.
ReplyDeleteHow can one not believe in God when he/she looks up and out into the universe!
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