BOWING

                                                                      Angelus:  Jean F. Mille

Bowing to this world

and creation

To the quiet

that will never attain

silence

Bowing to the

trees surrounding

Bowing to

the spaciousness

above

Bowing to the stars

masked by daylight

Bowing to honor

our great star

Bowing toward

the infinite which is

eternity

Bowing to honor

your soul’s journey

Bowing to honor

my own soul’s journey

Bowing to acknowledge

the reaper of souls

Bowing in gratitude

Bowing.

RW

Seattle

06.29.2019

SIGNS

SIGNS

A friend and I were visiting over coffee, and our conversation rolled around to current events and the sense of doom so many of us feel.

Something was said, I don’t remember what or by whom, I do remember

          (and even stepped aside and watched myself)

making the sign of the cross to ward off danger and enact a blessing on both of us.

My friend nodded his/her head and said

          Yeah

and the conversation moved on

the ancient act so oddly apropos.

ALL THE SIGNS

that say religion

are only that

because some guys

painted them so.

We can

shake off the orthodoxy

and allow the practices

to mean something more.

The sign of the cross

connects head to core

shoulder to shoulder

          body’s energy

          four elements

          cardinal points

          universal field

no blood sacrifice necessary.

RW

Seattle

06.20.2019

RW

Seattle

06.20.2019

US

US

We are too much like the scavengers

to be comfortable

with

crows making tools for theft

buzzards watching for death

coyotes thriving anywhere.

Our animal nature

            mammal life

scares the hell out of us

so we imagine ourselves

above

                        our fur-bearing

                        breast sucking

                        shit producing

                                    species/selves.

But

our footprints carry a scent

and mortality is on our trail

            just over there

                       

and the buzzards

and the crows

and the coyotes.

RW

Seattle

06.07.2019

(photo:  unattributed)