I was nosing about in Harvard Bookstore when an angel came to me in the form of a sausage dog. She was completely mute in the aisle between Economics and Philosophy, and I was stunned to silence. She wore her body like a well-groomed mink; her fur was lustrous as a newborn otter’s, sleeked and
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If by my pray’r alone I could well worship thee, In bed, bath, and bier I’d lift my voice and be Content. But oh — as difficult as ’twas to breathe When Thou lay vertically upon the cross — so ’tis For me to pray whilst I in placid postures plea. Lord, turn my knees
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I HAVE seen things in my life Which no one else has known, How to say this now, how To speak of what is vision For so much is unheard? I have looked across a river And seen them there – those Who have no human name Whose language has no word, Faultless with compassion.
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When faith is final and hope is vital salvation’s in the making Redemption’s waiting for saints beside me so steady and so friendly Your healing touch is so inviting I don’t have much but love’s a-plenty And isn’t truth just so enlightening so lift me up, don’t leave me empty When bombs are dropping and
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In the middle of the Ithaca hills the towns are cut deep and the buildings roost in the sutures. People can get lost here. They stop for gas on the way to the city and forget to leave and then one day they have been their whole lives nestled in a valley at the base
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Never were we meant to be alone. Never were we meant to fail. We were never meant to end. Therefore, in this life when we are lonely, when we fall short, when we have to say goodbye, our souls so ache with intensity and burning that we can hardly stand. Let this aching draw us
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she told him (although now he’s sure to tell you that she lied) that when the sun dives each night off the edge of the pier the waves steal a part of it forever. she asked him (with a funny almost-smile that he could only almost-see as they wrestled, laughing, on a quiet, secret beach)
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