Four Words

Revealed

The other has confronted,

touched on the quick, borne with through

awful combative silence — almost

inaction — until knowing one is

known, now.

Knowing

One is the observer of,

made participant in,

momentarily

caught, stilled;

listens with every fibre;

and to the swiftly far away

vanishing, an unpursuer

humbled.

Prophecy

Words are

imparted, able to calm,

quick to wrestle – and best;

they map a long long travelling

beyond experience even.

Teaching

Small exaltations of spirit demand

groundedness. Now too long

past dawn it’s time to get down to

listening, learn to talk too

without interference from

yourself, doing what’s been

given to be done.

(A gloss on I Cor. 14:6)