Thursday, February 5, 2015

Self-Blessing


The bud
stands for all things,
even 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.

 
- Galway Kinnell, 
from the poem "St. Francis and the Sow"
 

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