Lent/Easter

Tuesday Evening – Holy Week

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Spring rain, evening rain
as tulips close for the day, as
wind lifts each branch and new leaf.
Waiting in somber tones
minor chords and whispers
as God comes from the inside of space
just around a curve in the weft of woven time
spun in warp weave glistening.
Tuesday evening holiness
whole cloth ruffled in the breeze
lit by the setting sun
marked in water
the last few drops of rain.

Portland, Oregon – April 11, 2017

Holy week in the Christian tradition begins with Palm Sunday and reaches its zenith on Easter Sunday.

Violet Gray

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Violet gray
winter abandoning
bird trembling
in violet gray.
Stones in desert foliage
speak of Christ
violet flesh
gray eyes
troubled, fearful.
Fire on the water
water violet gray
in the morning.
Hymns, antiphonally,
Gregorian tones
in violet gray.
Hush! Hush!
whispered season
a waiting, afraid
of violet bursting
gray emanating
dubious death
questioned arising.

Menlo Park,  California – March 9, 1984
Lenten Series

Mercy

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It is curved, old, deep –
punctured, stretched, twisted.
Emptiness fills its hollow core.
A vibrant electric thrum
bumps along the walls
of this place we know –
do not want to know –
pushed behind our hidden door.

It beckons us from there –
knock, knock, knock.
Our deepest past
calls to us from remote well-springs,
life-bearing pools that seem, in dreams,
to be precipices, hidden caves, cataclysmic seas.

Silence, its name and substance,
waits for us to still, remember, open the door
to let in, at last, sweet mercy –
handmaiden of the living god
however we name her or call the holy.

Portland, Oregon – February 14, 2016

Lenten springtime-Year of Mercy