Thursday, November 29, 2012

The Reveal


I watch the redolent splendor
the luxury of sleep merging
into wakefulness back into
sleep - the gift of the one who
has nowhere to be at no particular
time – and observe as the satellite moves
across the dawning sky like a north
star in a March Hare kind of hurry
exiting stage right beyond the
picture-frame surround of the
double-paned window, a diptych
homage to the beauty of an emerging
daylight against the constancy of the
ridge line of mountains whose features
remain otherwise indistinguishable
in the still mostly-dark shadows of
the dawning and adore the rose-red
thread of color that expands and expands
into the sky like peek behind the curtain
a proud God pulls back, slowly, ever
so slowly, the magician child proclaiming
to the gathered and expectant family,
Ta-dah!

2 comments:

  1. Absolutely love it!! Aaahhh.. to be able to wake to such beauty!

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    1. Marilyn - I get a daily gift that way, but this was even more special at a retreat center in VA - what a gift to have spent time there!

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