To learn to concentrate without effort
and to transform work into play
I need to have and hold a zone of silence
in my soul.
~ from Nan Merrill’s Journals
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?