July 8th, 2012
Draw Near
by Scott Cairns
For near is where you’ll meet what you have wandered
far to find. And near is where you’ll very likely see
how far the near obtains. In the dark katholikon
the lighted candles lent their gold to give the eye
a more than common sense of what lay flickering
just beyond the ken, and lent the mind a likely
swoon just shy of apprehension. It was then
that time’s neat artifice fell in and made for us
a figure for when time would slip free altogether.
I have no sense of what this means to you, so little
sense of what to make of it myself, save one lit glimpse
of how we live and move, a more expansive sense in Whom.
–Read at St. Lydia’s on July 8, 2012
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Beautiful song . it’s true , sometimes all we need is under our nose …
Thanks !
We’re ALWAYS wondering what to do with those pesky coconuts. It’s becoming a problem.