Months
Sometimes it is difficult to see God’s grace on a calendar.
Months Exodus 12:22 - This month shall be for you the beginning of months. First published in Clayjar Review https://clayjar.review/issues/quiescence/months Mercy named the months for we could not swallow a minute’s luster— the perpetual, witnessed pale, tempered in part across an hour— so we might savor goodness, its power, that saturates our years, its centuries— their millenia. He wrapped us in time, to sip at its table— for if we awoke to to infinite feasts of memories, gorged destinies, their blue moons— our bloated, liquid bodies and engulfed eyes, would erupt, (from flickering disbelief) into drops of stars spanning the never-ending skies. So bits of seconds and seasons are bound— then dispensed, delicately, into a vanilla scent, a quiet kiss, an icicle’s drip, a morning mist— hemming time’s intent— its dimness and its brillance.