Friday, May 28, 2021

Nighttide (WC)




(Wendy Cabell, May 28, feast day of the above Nicea Icon of the Mother of God, and of Blessed Maria Bagnesi and Blessed Margaret Plantagenet Pole. Today on the Jewish calendar, Noah's ark came to rest on Mount Ararat (2105 BC). Image from here.)


Nighttide



opens up nook to curl in.
Stars a blanket. Bed a boat.
Placing soul in Your hands,
day cast upon the waters.
Carried. Knowing I'll

      wake to You
       one way or
      another. And

that You Yourself will
bring me to the day I
   next need know.



*from prompt: freewrite as inspired by Ross Gay's Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude; from Lisa Freedman's Breathe/Read/Write, May 28, 2021. Note: fuller version of poem is here.)

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