Self Blessing

The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don't flower,
for everything flowers, from within,
of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within,
of self-blessing;

 - Excerpt from 'Saint Francis and the Sow' by Galway Kinnell


artwork: Adelaide Shalhope