The call

to follow

with delight

and trailing patience

each call that comes

to retreat and return

bearing

ever widening circles

less pendulum, more compass

to inhabit circumference

to gather home

from wind and moss

with holy worldly steadiness

to be found spinning

shedding

swelling

under moon spell

wake

and tend

to rhythms primeval

to hold the circle shape

of space and time

and hollowed out by grace

remain whole

remain the wider purpose 

sheer existence

//

to love truth

above consolation

to be without necessity

and without waiting

and being alone

stand still

conducive

to receive

conceive 

the ground 

Beloved

bound

in praise

to the ineffable

to forgive

the dark night

of unwilling distance

to become bread

and sweeten

by belief

the present

instance