St. Mary’s Home
…’P’ is for presence. ‘N’ is for now
‘W’ is for wait for me, I’ll be in Cairo before dawn…
What makes me listen
…Let us pray:
is not your voice,
“Our Mother, Queen of of the Cards…
not the choice or flush of words.
…be our nest and pyre…”
I listen solely to your lips,
a wingless flight…a pause here,
a pause there, on each a butterfly
settled to lay her store of eggs and
be away into the late afternoon
running off the world’s edge
like an incessant prayer. … Let it be here, Let it
be here… I listen with my eyes
till the clock in the hall strikes four, then five,
till a lady in white linen stands waiting at the door.
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