Luring song

This, this is the thing

the heart of the universe

the nucleus of the acorn

the one sound beneath all sounds

the direction all directions 
eventually run.

This is why you are hungry.

Why you go searching

even when you don’t know you are.

Why grace alights

as a fragile winged creature

on the stone in your belly

and brings it back to life

calling it through the million years

of stony hibernation,

the slow sleep 
of the uncalled.

And so I am calling you.

And so you are called.

And so the universe

the acorn

the one sound

the directions

they hear me.

And so the call

it travels through the heartline into the being

into secret cathedrals and crevices

beneath the skin 
of earth.

And so we are drawn.

The movement of God beneath atoms of light,

of darkness, unthinkable particles

goes finally unhindered.

It is

the simplest ceremony.

I see you coming from
the edge of the desert

over the curve of the foothill

up from the other side of the solar system.

I see the water and the wind

rejoice.