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Reflections

by Laurie Klein 15 Chiming In

Just this, for Holy Week . . .

 

Reflections

Yes

I am going to start living
larger, looser—
stripped down
to my sapling self, leaning toward
that leafless tree Messiah loved
enough to die on.

Maybe its boughs sheltered him once,
from pelting rain,
spread shade like a cloak,
dropped one late fig, surprising his palm—
one small story uniting and
easing them both
at the end, on that hill like a skull.

My brow touches the earth.
Moved by hosannas, echoing
still, deep inside stones,
I rise. Then the tight turn,
lifting fingers, limbs,
my bird-soft hair—
all the thorns, delicately removed.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

. . . be like the tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream.
It has no worries in a year of drought

and never fails to bear fruit.

                                           —Jeremiah 17:8

“Yes,” from Where the Sky Opens, by Laurie Klein

Laurie Klein, Scribe

Filed Under: Soul Mimosas Tagged With: Holy Week, reflections, sapling self March 22, 2016

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