Nature for Liturgy

This is your day
God
But then
So was yesterday

A litany to you
Could have been
Between the sunset
And moon
Rising
Or even closer
The response
Of branch
To wind

We could guess
The words are everywhere
And should we know
The language
We could antiphon
With
Nature

Find the circles
And to join
Them
In
Nature’s lack of need
To worship
But providing perfect places
For it
All the same

An invitation
All the same
From
The world that
We have
Gradually
Used up

Irony
And gratitude
Shall we apply
In moving
Aside
(inside
or outside)
To be
Here
In splendid
Airy
Easy
(save for awe
mountain peaks
or seeming
depthless
oceans)
Company

In unaware companionship
But offering
The same
Anyway
For our hours
In irony
And gratitude

C L Couch


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