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Recollection of Communion
For my mother
I have seen
how the voices join and
swell like the sea-blue wave but
what you want
to know is why it breaks –
the impassioned singing –
the wave spilling over
it is there
standing on the pew –
peering over shoulders
that I see the altar and wonder
what the words really are –
my voice follows the liturgy's crescendo
and then I am falling
into love - sharing
a Beloved
with Godde who is well pleased –
inwardly I am aching to embrace
the vast heart
of infinite tenderness.
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This is a poem conversation with St. Catherine of Siena's “Consumed in Grace” which ends:
I have seen what you want; / it is there, / a Beloved of infinite / tenderness.
Published in House of Blessing, sitting duck press, 2010
