Self-blessing
St. Francis and the Sow – Galway Kinnell
The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don’t flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
thosugh sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on the brow of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing;
as Saint Francis
put his hand on the creased forehead
of the sow, and told her in words and in touch
blessings of the earth on the sow, and the sow
began remembering … the long perfect loveliness of sow.
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