Sabbath Work

     

“You shall do no work on the Lord’s Sabbath.” 
~Leviticus 23:3

This is the work of the Sabbath.

Let all creatures flower

out of themselves,

the motionless explosion of a rose, 

a galaxy of pollen,

a blue-green egg

in a well-woven nest,

the little earth

in its swirl of distances.

This is the task

of the effortless.

Each nerve a serpent 

in the hologram 

of your spine,

the diamond Am

with eight billion I’s.

A prophet does not see

into the future.

A prophet sees

deeply

into the present moment.