Saturday, June 7, 2014

The first crease

The first crease                                                                                          

Like the first crease in the batting distance
on the cricket field, bowler to batter

or the line of a footrace to evenly curb each toe –
such is the scratch we must get back to.

Eruch said to begin by earnestly kidding ourselves
that He’s in the chair until His grace opens our eyes

to the presumed Reality and then it’s suddenly
kidding ourselves to believe the chair is empty.

O child of God, return to that edgeless, quiet
unknown before the first pitch is thrown.

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