Matins - 2006 - 12 x 18 - edition of 28 - $450

.Matins

Every morning I wake

into the world again

knowing more of loss.

I read poetry

the way someone

somewhere else

reads scripture.

Letting the book fall open

where it may,

seeking some shard of light…

enough to see by.

I sit on the wooden bench

above the bay

the way someone

somewhere else

sits in a pew…

the waters whisper

in the mother tongue.