Dawn Breeze
The early breeze before dawn
Is the keeper of secrets.
Don't go back to sleep!
It is time for prayer, it is time to ask for
what you really need.
Don't go back to sleep!
The door of the one who created the world
Is always open.
Don't go back to sleep!

Birdwings
Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up
to where you're bravely working.
Expecting the worst, you look and instead,
here's the joyful face you've been waiting to see.
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open
you would be paralysed.
Your deepest presence is in every small
contracting and expanding,
the two as beautifully balanced & co-ordinated
as birdwings.