If I tell you the mums
by the driveway are blooming
that is holy.
If you tell me the crow
in the tall palm sounds like a dog
that’s holy.
If I remind you there are children
in this town who went to bed hungry
that is holy.
If you say the rain is light, the sea is calm
and this town can change
that’s holy.
When I tell you our love will die
but first these things matter
we become holy.
J. Kyle Kimberlin
“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet, in the time of the world’s night, utters the holy.”
~ Heidegger
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