FRED
LAMOTTE
SAINT JULIAN
PRESS POET
STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS
“And they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims
on the earth.” ~Hebrews 12
You have pilgrim eyes,
the second sight of a stranger.
And the lens through which you see
is the broken place
in your body,
which is the broken place
in your soul,
which is the world
you see.
And when you meet
another wanderer,
you break open
even wider.
You remember how she
is the world
in the shape of a wound.
You see her through
your shattered lens,
which brings her into focus,
which is how you
heal the world;
not by long suffering
some collective dream
of global despair,
but by intimate encounters
on the labyrinth way,
one pilgrim at a time -
and by breathing
through your broken place
into hers.
“And they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims
on the earth.” ~Hebrews 12
You have pilgrim eyes,
the second sight of a stranger.
And the lens through which you see
is the broken place
in your body,
which is the broken place
in your soul,
which is the world
you see.
And when you meet
another wanderer,
you break open
even wider.
You remember how she
is the world
in the shape of a wound.
You see her through
your shattered lens,
which brings her into focus,
which is how you
heal the world;
not by long suffering
some collective dream
of global despair,
but by intimate encounters
on the labyrinth way,
one pilgrim at a time -
and by breathing
through your broken place
into hers.
THE NECTAR OF THIS BREATH
Fred LaMotte © 2022
Fred LaMotte © 2022
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Publication Date: April 15, 2022
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Email: ronstarbuck@saintjulianpress.com * Web: www.saintjulianpress.com
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