Wednesday, June 13, 2018

RECENT EVENTS




REFUGEE LITANY

Refugee, alien, floater, green-horn, invader, migrant, new comer, outsider, squatter, stranger, weed, outlander, not-from-here, drifter, gypsy, wetback, itinerant, transient, outlaw, dodger, bum, hobo, tramp, displaced person, DP, squatter, illegal, stateless, homeless, runaway, boat-person, outcast, fugitive, derelict, cast-away, émigré, deportee, non-person, defector, persona non grata, undesirable, wanderer, fugitive, stray, transient, exile, vagabond, vagrant, drifter, indigent, orphan, urchin, wastrel, stranger

Holy!
All men are holy
All women holy
Holy the Wanderer
Holy the Traveler
Holy the Stranger
Holy the Immigrant
Holy the Refugee
!

SHELTER IN PLACE

In the shelter
shelter of a thought

In the shelter
of a gaze

Who watches?

In the shelter
shelter of your arms

In the shelter
of your heart

Who watches?

In the shelter
rooms & shadows

In the shelter
doorways
alleys

Who watches
watches over you?

In the shelter
words & phrases

In the shelter
silence
breath

In the shelter
life & death

Who watches
who watches
who watches
over you?




Wednesday, June 6, 2018



FROM SILENCE

to breath

from breath
to
murmur

from
murmur
to
voice

voice
to
chorus

chorus
to
jubilation

jubilation
to
transcendence

from

transcendence

to

silence.


(Star Child from 2001:  A Space Odyssey)


RW
Seattle
06/03/2018