Spring at Santa Sabina - Ruah Bull


 On my first retreat
I brought a suitcase full 
 of books on silence

And sat entranced
by pages and pages
on mindfulness, mysticism.
, 
I didn't hear the fountain glisten
or smell unfolding purple
or notice cool bands of moving shadow.

If  every creature is a Word of God
This one was loud
luminous, insistent.

I don't know what she said
but her feet were so small,
her wings diaphanous with speed.

The garden around me
 within me
 awakens.



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