Mini Miracles (WC)

(Wendy Cabell, August 28, 2024, feast day of the Dormition of the Mother of God (old calendar), Our Lady of Kiev, Saint Anna the Prophetess, Saint Agnes of Cologne (companion to Saint Ursula), Saint Junipero Serra, Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Joaquina Vedruna Vidal de Mas, Several Martyrs in England and in the Spanish Civil War, Saints Theodora and her daughter Theopiste, Martyr Susanna, Queen of Georgia. On Jewish calendar today is Hasmonean Holiday (circa 100 BCE) (Hellanist secular law replaced). Image from here.)

Mini Miracles

Friday's disappointment

Is Sunday's empty tomb

–from “Rattle”, Bethel Music 

1. Lonliness

(lioness before the hunt)

spots movement across the plains, soft blink of a golden eye. 

Neighbor’s cub it turns out. The lioness turns towards. 

There'll be jubilation, no doubt, upon the little one’s return –-

to the warm and welcoming fur of her mother, 

to the warm and welcoming fur of her mother. 

2. With Kin

(once buried, begins)

up, out -- blade, ear, grain. Love Herself 

She tends, brings map –- magic Land.

And our seed, so dark-familiar

finds! a Heart Who understands,

finds! a Heart Who understands.

3. Meander Sunday

(Portland, Oregon, 2006)

once volcano, we hike mount’s rim.

A hawk circles. Draws us in.

Onto library, spy ancient lore

grants us passage, new kindly shore

grants us passage, new kindly shore –-

*From prompt: Write of something longed for, past, present, or future (in this case the longing for miracles). Daisy Barrett-Nash’s Legacy Lines (Writers at Play), August 28, 2024. As material, reworked past pieces:

1) free association based on various words given as prompts (later set to structure inspired by Radclyffe Hall) , and 2&3) freewrite then structure as inspired by (respectively) Hall’s  “Tramping Poem” (with an eye to using the comfort of rhyme scheme to make the expression of charged issues easier for readers to receive), and her “Tradition” (with an eye to how one spends, has spent, or would like to spend their Sundays). From Daisy Barrett-Nash’s Legacy Lines (Writers at Play), Summer, 2024.