where miracles descend
October 24, 2016
Pay more attention
to the Ordinary.
It is the alter
where miracles descend
like Spirit into bread –
this breath,
or a deer trail
leading back to itself
in the little woods,
three unharvested tomatoes
glowing hollow
as lanterns,
or a spider flinging its
silken path homeward
from your old garden buddha
to a withered rose,
the last evening light
fondling small things
like the hand of the dying,
not with regret
but inextinguishable
gratitude.
~ Fred LaMotte
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