Starry Conception

The fact that astronomies change 
while the stars abide 
is a true analogy 
of every realm of human life and thought, 

religion not least of all. 

No existent theology 
can be a final formulation of 
spiritual truth.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick
(arranged quote)

A prayer in the wind

Places have memories. It scares us

to think so. I am like bamboo, placeless,
transplanted somewhere new, staked
with foreign weather. But I

remember. We pause in our work, turn
our faces up to rain, our open mouths, one
after one. We think desire is enough.

It’s not. We build our privacies, impenetrable,
thin. We want places to remember us.

- Eva Saulitis, Prayer 28