Faith

Even now, I am becoming
wind, something less flesh, more
movement, more current, less
here, more everywhere. Though
the moment I think I know this truth,
the knowing re-solids me,
makes me into clay that pretends it is wind.
But becoming clay again, I am destined
to crumble, disintegrate, until
I am dust and once again one
with the wind. How to trust anything
then, except this infinite becoming and
rebecoming—and whatever
it is that is alive inside it all.
That. I put my faith in that.

When She Asked Me About Prayer

I don't know, but maybe
it has something to do
with sitting on the roof
and watching what's left

of the lunar eclipse while
crickets sing silence
into ecstatic buzz
and joy spills into my cells

till the idea of self washes away.
Or, when I'm shucked by loss.
The self in tatters. Raw.
Naked. Unable to know.

Utterly flayed. Then.
That's when I pray.