Monday morning
everyone needs easier

a half an hour
and I haven’t really
said
anything

but what would you like to hear
on a Monday morning from
this culture
to
your part in it
or within other lines

I’d like to talk of God and imagine a Monday
morning church
clean
from Sunday
shining surfaces not having to be bright
but
burnished from use
and now
the building takes a breath and welcomes
truly interested
to work

a clean church
from
being mostly empty and a day off
for the pastor
a chance for visitors to enter
and
to breathe
and to wish good Sunday for the Spirit there
and then and now
a restful
presence
as if the sabbath were on this day instead
when
we might pause or at least
work
with less intrusion
if intrusion is the way
but
everyone needs easier
hours
you know
like the Genesis example

a good
day of
taking in the quiet noise
then
all return
outside

n.b.

and could be Sunday in the temple
for the same
or
in the mosque the time before the next
call
to prayer

bless the cleaners

c l couch


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