Behind Doors (WC)

 

(Wendy Cabell, February 1, 2022, Feast day of the (above) Weeping Icon of the Mother of God of Socola, Forefeast of the Meeting of Our Lord, Eve of Imbolc, Eve of World Day for Consecrated Life, Chinese New Year, Rosh Chodesh (new moon) of Adar, Saint Brigid’s Day, and feast day of  Saint Brigid of Fiesole, Saint Veridiana, Saint Perpetua,, and Blessed Anna Michelotti. Image from here.)

Behind Doors

I’d make Heaven a cheerful spot

because the happy heart is true.

–Saint Brigid of Kildare, here

Behind the door, a cat.

Beside the cat, a bowl, 

ever full yet ever giving–-

of sustenance, delight. The

cat mayhap the I. The bowl

mayhap the Heart.

*From prompt: Write as inspired by the life and miracles of Saint Brigid. From Kayleen Asbo’s Feasts of Light and Water, February 1, 2022.