Unfinished Invocation Unfinished Invocation Stillness: Tell me more about yourself. You've shown me Benedictine trees robed in frost and penance, one leaf embalmed with ice and haze that seems to have some clean, primitive awareness. Are they in on it too? Garden of ash, winter's illusion. I can see through it now. I can even shatter the mirror of my night, even draw down the hermit sun with one thing and one thing only: this particle of faith. Come to me, untouched gold behind the clouds . . . succulent, ripe and promising as Venus, newborn, on a shell. Come to me, nurturing star in a gallery of worlds: God behind, within, everything. You never lost me, did you? One word and it's Genesis all over again. I thought I had to crawl and grasp and audition for a part in devotion or climb the withered sky, even past the imperial drapes of the void, or float with dazed purity like the moon on dark waters. If I could only get it right . . . I would be there, but now it seems that even in the silent screams of shadows, I never left the Light. Patricia Joan Jones © patriciajj1 - all rights reserved. |
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