Thomas Lowe Taylor -- Prayer

for Steve Ellis



Here at the vast edge of what is,
I call out to you and hear response

from light within I bend and reach
in humility at the tasks which call

into me evenings in the hammock
where I awoke in the hammock new

and fall and rise each beating of
my anxious heart reclines to us

in our own density and fathoms,
the darker light remains to mark

and skein, the doubt no outer calls
ahead and scores us newer than this.

Oh, power, I beseech and flame, we
make this day the whole and sum within.

March 30, 1994
Portland OR TT