cross be broken.
O Lord, your word will be my life
And through my life be spoken.
THE FATHER UTTERS
The Father utters
a Word
which a virgin
receives
the Spirit speaks
and the virgin who listens
utters
the Word
heard
once by the prophets
the Word now speaks
while the world listens
to the mercy and myriad
wonders the Father
utters
ANNUNCIATION
The acute load of a great joy
needles my heart
and seethes within the tissues of my brain —
the thought that this the face of man became,
on some brief long-forgotten day,
the face of God — and will remain.
O may this joy beneath life's puzzling goad
each day explode!
BECOMING MAN
The humble moment
of total fusion
in darkness
and silence
seen by no one
heard by no one
felt by no one
a greater detonation
than any nuclear fission
and for a long while yet
no one will know it has happened.
WHEN GOD MADE YOU
When
God
made
you
there
was
silence
in
heaven
for
five
minutes.
Then
God
said:
“How come I never thought of that before?”
BIRTHDAY UTTERANCE
I have great joy
in knowing that you
have been
born
into the world
because
having been breathed
by God
into existence
you will never
be able
– like a bubble –
to pop
suddenly
back into nothingness
welcome
to this one great
champagne
dancing
party of being
and be
always
alive and utterly
grateful to Him
who
simply freely spontaneously
needlessly and
eternally
utters
THE MIST LIFTS
the mist lifts
for a moment
over the why of creation
as I see
God
making each person
with the identical
wonder and joy
of making
Jesus
EVERY CHRISTIAN MOTHER
every Christian mother
watches God
in her first-born
come
into the world
and with amazed
shocked
wonder
knows that the mystery
of Love
eluding
