11-07-2023, 05:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-07-2023, 05:46 PM by RiverNotch.)
Winter for a star
is a great flash of light
scattering the soot
of its billion-year burn,
only if no hole
in time forms where it died
then its dust may coalesce
into another spark,
another ring of rock,
another chance for life---
When the moon, for as long
as her brother, sheds her light
and the grape gathers juice
from its vine, then the plough
may begin to break the earth
and the grains of wheat may fall
to decompose their shells
and let their shoots arise.
All creation is involved
in the milling of the flour
and the baking of the bread,
in the pressing of the fruit
and fermenting of the wine:
for whom, then, must we give?
is a great flash of light
scattering the soot
of its billion-year burn,
only if no hole
in time forms where it died
then its dust may coalesce
into another spark,
another ring of rock,
another chance for life---
When the moon, for as long
as her brother, sheds her light
and the grape gathers juice
from its vine, then the plough
may begin to break the earth
and the grains of wheat may fall
to decompose their shells
and let their shoots arise.
All creation is involved
in the milling of the flour
and the baking of the bread,
in the pressing of the fruit
and fermenting of the wine:
for whom, then, must we give?