Sabbath Work

     

This is the work of the Sabbath.

All creatures flowering

out of themselves,

the motionless explosion 

of a rose, 

a galaxy of pollen,

a blue-green egg

in a wiccawoven nest,

the little earth

in its swirl of distances.

This is the task

of the effortless.

A prophet does not see

into the future.

A prophet sees

deeply

into the present moment.