inked

god’s own dye

head to toe

bones tattooed

etched in prayer

lifeinked 

oh how they will wish 

to understand

oh how the runes

will laugh

waking up during itikaf

God is not human.

God speaks oak and mountain and rabbit as

    fluently as your tongue, or theirs.

God reaches to you in your humanness, in ways

    your human soul can understand.

You were created to respond in uniquely human

    forms - God knows our quirks.

But God is not human. God is beyond human

    understanding, and cannot be limited by

    humanness. We are not the measure.

God is Greater. God is Greatest.

You are a child of the universe.

You are on a journey home. 

Let your kinship with the world swallow you whole. 

Dissolve in the embrace. 

You were once held in a womb.

You still are, if only you knew. 

windbite

hungry windbite snaps spitsout

bones

hissing sucks marrow howling

gulping whole

and we toothstung

cheeks and

tonguelashed hands and

windfeast in winter famine

prayer for the new year

clean sheets fresh

brewed tea combed

soft hair daylight

rippled with cold

small starts

daily miracles

but inside

stretching delta of

desire

all whole all flowing

reaching ocean abandon

who is to 

say which 

salt is pleasure

which

silt is restraint

all is ecstasy and fertile

live here says

the heart

on every day ordinary

undaunted by

yearning live here

says the heart