From 1969: Two Prayer-Poems for a Catholic Mass

(From the archive: Written with the encouragement of Lynn Valek for a Catholic Mass, Crown College, UC Santa Cruz, December 1969)

 

1  (Prayer, of an Ultimate Nature)

 Lord, make open our eyes:

The sea is your blood,

The mountains your bones,

The air that we breathe

            your breath.

The earth is your flesh,

The fruits of the earth,

Which we eat – yours also.

Lord, make us to see:

All flesh is your flesh.

 

 

2  (Prayer, for the time being; a haiku)

 

Treeless, we are leaves,

            fighting as we

            fall. Do not

Blow us away, Lord.