Barn Window

The Barn Window

 

 

 

… the slow large tears that spill from the eye, flowing like unblown rain according to the laws of gravity and desolation—these are the real tears. … They are the ones that have been simmered, boiled, sieved, filtered past all anger and into the realm of acceptive serenity.

-MFK FISHER

SISTER AGE

p.19

 

The shadow of everything the old ones grieve

Clings to the window of the soul.

Like a cataract it covers the clear lens of sight

On which people all their days depend for truth

Is now but an obscurance of the  light.

Over many years the rain etched each occurrence into glass

After which the dust and heat of day polished off the job

Into the lace of time through which it became impossible

To tell the difference between engravings wrought by joy or pain

Every vein of circumstance entwined, and we are old.

 

On a wooden bench we sit inside the empty barn

To ponder meaning in the window’s scroll,

The purpose of the rain and lace, the shadow

Of all that always was beyond

The perfect wholeness of the frame

In which it was enclosed.

This Ekphrastic poem was inspired by the evocative photograph by creative photographer, Alison Scott. (PO Box 135, Peterborough, New Hampshire 03458—and current samples of her work can be found on Instagram)

 

Alison and I first met through a meditation book I wrote in the mid-199o’s, FINDING STONE: A Quiet Parable and Soul-Work Meditation. First published by Innisfree Press in 1996, it is now available in a self-published edition at Amazon.com. This little book appealed to Alison and friends of hers, and she wanted to share it with a wider audience by providing greeting cards with her photos and contemplative phrases from the book. After that we continued to support each other in our creative work. Two of her photographs grace my books:  The Root of Beauty: A Spiritual Memoir and No This But This: A Novel.

 

The spirit of creation draws people together, no matter where they might be located on this earth, no matter near nor far. Souls find one another.

 

 

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