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Form

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God

I love you

Even though

I’m unsure of the terms

Or attitude

How to be both

Obeisant and

Democratic

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See

You’re a monarch

Absolute ruler

Of the universe

(more than He-Man

or She-Ra)

While for now

To mortal lives

You’re also

Frankly

Invisible

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I may say

You’re in the wind

Your fingerprints the bark

On trees

And all the patterns

Helix

Hexagons

The nautilus

In nature

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We may say there’s evidence

I may say

And I believe

The wonder inside everything

Indicating

A wonder-maker

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And there are words for you

As you speak

To Adam

Eve

And prophets

Though you tend so speak

Through agencies

Especially after Eden

Still

We say your words

Which is all right

For me

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You are layered

Through the books

And we must read

And listen

Let it sink

Through layers

Into our own deep places

Reemerging

Into peace

And promise

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We are surprised by joy

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But who are you

And how are you

An image

In what ways

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And how are you

Today

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How is it to know you

And to live with you

Really

We wake to a clock

And then what

Should happen

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There are domestic

Possibilities

When Jesus says

To wash and comb

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When mourning

To offer in the temple

Our poorer

Open selves

Then give

What for each of us

Corresponds to the

Widow’s mite

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We know you count the hair

Track the falling sparrow

Offer bread

When sinners offer stones

Plus you prodigally receive

Whenever we return

From profligacy

Spending our inheritance

The gifts you gave

And what we have

From the world

All gone

And only we are left

As shells

Needing frankly

Food and water

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And then you give us

Feasts

While the righteous and the stern

Glower

While serving

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There is that stream

Of course

We wander by

So I guess you somehow do that

And in some form

So we might walk

Together

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