Summer Cloister (WC)

 

(Wendy Cabell, August 25, 2022, feast day of Our Lady of Rossano, Nuestra Senora del Rosario, Translation of the relics of Saint Hilda of Whitby (above) and feast day of Saint Louis IX, Saint Hunegund of Homblieres, and Saint Aebbe/Ebbe the Elder. Image from here.)

Summer Cloister

(feast day of Saint Hilda of Whitby)

It is the monotony of our lives which frees the spirit; 

all the imminent things drop away–-Mother Thekla, 

Monastery of the Assumption, Whitby

 

Feet long now, for a 

Nun’s slow steps, 

slow deliberate,

slow watching, 

slow noting the shift of sky.

Though on variable terrain (mind’s eye)

a measured step never minds. Never being 

too big to ponder and ever a road,

swept in welcome

*From prompt: Freewrite as inspired by Sheryl St. Germain’s “Going Home: New Orleans”; from Lisa Freedman’s BreatheReadWrite, August 25, 2022.