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A Poem To Sit With
15th Sunday of Ordinary Time
July 10, 2016
J. Janda


“He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
(Second Reading)       


  The Complaint         
       

White pebble
in my hand

you are fiercely
impenetrable

will it always be
a matter of surface
with you and me—

I am learning
to live with you

but your language
is beyond me

beyond my thinking's
noisy machinery

beyond memory's frontier
off imagination's edge—

I have been promised
another white stone

bearing a new name
known only to me

will it too
be impenetrable

I am beginning
to live with you

I am beginning
to see


J. Janda

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J. Janda's poems have appeared in newspapers, magazines, anthologies, and literary publications, as well as in books of his own poetry.
The present poem comes from the Janda's book,
IN EMBRACE.
If you wish to order a copy go to http://www.lifeinchrist-newsletter.com/
Art by Martin Erspamer, O.S.B.
from Religious Clip Art for the Liturgical Year (A, B, and C).
Used by permission of Liturgy Training Publications. This art may be reproduced only by parishes who purchase the collection in book or CD-ROM form. For more information go to: http://www.ltp.org/