Thursday, November 23, 2023

an embarrassment

  






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Do you want to ask the blessing?”

“No. If you do, go ahead.”


He went ahead: his prayer dressed up

in Sunday clothes rose a few feet

and dropped with a soft thump.

If a lonely soul did ever cry out

in company its true outcry to God,

it would be as though at a sedate party

a man suddenly removed his clothes

and took his wife passionately into his arms.


—Wendell Berry



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