Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Curtain Call (WC)

 


(Wendy Cabell, March 31, 2021, Holy Wednesday, feast day (one of them) of the above Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, and of Saint Innocent Apostle to the Americas, and Saint Joseph the Patriarch. Image from here.)


Curtain Call 
(after Molly McCully Brown)


The rule [of Saint Benedict] takes me back to something early, primal, and universal. --Esther de Waal's address to the Illinois Benedictine College Community, 26 April, 1995


Lace guardians,
so patient you are.
Roseflow braiding
hospitality, simplicity, peace.
Work, study, holy leisure. Weave
of rose into lace into room which
awaits. All this time silent. All the better
to cradle, I suppose, this longing for
holiness
   of
home.



*From prompt: Freewrite as inspired by Molly McCully Brown's Transubstantiation, notice something in your environment you don't usually give much thought to, allowing yourself to be curious about it, to bless it's being here and to let emerge what you love about it. From Mindful Poetry March Gathering, March 31, 2021.

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