In a marvelous way

In a marvelous way

This realm grows stranger every day.
Thus, lightly, humbly now I tread.
In a marvelous way, in a marvelous way,

the dream-contours fade, begin to fray,
new configurations emerge instead;
this realm grows stranger every day,

light shot routinely through the clay,
expectations turned gently upon their heads
in a marvelous way, in a marvelous way.

The game grows deeper the more I play;
partaking heartily of the holy bread,
this realm grows stranger every day,

out gingerly from under illusion's sway;
savoring the path where once I sped.
In a marvelous way, in a marvelous way

practicing the holy be-it-as-it-may
where this wondrous, crooked path has led.
This realm grows stranger every day
in a marvelous way, in a marvelous way.

                         (Unpublished)