Plain and Precious
I say unto you,
That God is able of these stones
to raise up children unto Abraham.
― Luke 3:8
Is the stone
or seer
the instrument
manifesting
inappreciable things
to us
plainly?
(If stone,
why seer?
If seer,
why stone?)
What makes rock
precious
(does God esteem
atoms in carbon
hardened into diamond
more than those of feldspar
olivine or quartz)?
Seers are peters
polished
from plain folk
(common as river rock)
seeking the Inappreciable
in ordinary stoneship:
Seeing in plainness
preciousness
not
presupposed.
About the Author
Owl of the Desert is the nom de plume of Tim Merrill. He grew up in the foothills of Sacramento, California, on a farm where he raised horses and sheep. When Moses turned forty, he slew an Egyptian and fled for his life. Less dramatically, when Tim turned forty, he decided to share some of his poetry.
One of his favorite things about being a father is surprising his kids by doing something totally unexpected: like when he woke them up at midnight to see a blood wolf moon and performed a dance on the freezing front lawn in his pajamas (as they repeatedly told him to hush before the neighbors woke). Most magical things come unexpectedly.
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