July 28 Devotion

Poem #2
from Maurice Manning's “Eight Bucolics” 
read by John Hoffman

the light inside the shadow how
it hovers there it’s like an owl song
a quiver hoot it shakes a little Boss
I think your face is in that flicker
is your neck a candle wick your face
a flame on top you’re almost always
going out so dim sometimes bright Boss
not for the life of me can I put
my finger on it the way it comes
it also goes which is quickly Boss
if you would just sit still I’d carve
your face into a stick then I
could look at you Boss a hundred times
a day you could listen for the owl
if he let out a hoot I’d turn
your wooden ear into the wind

Music: Julie-O
Summer
Helen Byrne, cello

Prayer
Scott Starbuck