Silent Disapproval

Silent Disapproval

The relation between us was silence; that and the feeling of each one being watched by the other… It had begun by my talking all of the time repeating the worn formulae of the churches in the belief that was prayer. Why does silence suggest disapproval? The...
Is Anybody There?

Is Anybody There?

Prayers like  gravel flung at the sky’s window, hoping to attract the loved one’s attention. But without visible plaits to let down for the believer to climb up, to what purpose open that far casement? I would have refrained long since but that peering once...
Your Precious Life

Your Precious Life

Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper…?   I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel in the  grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been...