Pauca Verba is Latin for A Few Words.

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Upon Finding An Old Icon




Found you in the attic box
sealed and forgotten,
Your icon, O Christ,
from your czarist home
your long adventuring
to my hands and heart.

Now to light again,
smiling, with blessing hand,
Child of the Imagining One:
of the trillion, trillion galaxies,
of fetal fingerprints and DNA,
of uncoiling fern and the Spring's spring,
of weeping moss for joy or sorrow,
of Shinleaf and Foam Flower,
of the ten thousand bird species,
and textured clouds.

From our own worn frame,
split and dulled,
save us who cry to you
All-Merciful and Golden.

Father Stephen P. Morris