Beautiful Thoughts

"To Come So," Sister Mary Virginia Micka

the body's attractiveness

poignant
but kitschy

O Holy One
I am ashamed
to come so full of words

Satipatana meditation
bones of my corpse
turning to dust

but my body
is not
repulsive

we can love ourselves
and love
our impermanence

traditions can’t live
unless
their elders die

the poet can’t know if

the little bird
will ever fly