Catechisms for a New Orthodoxy



Someone is knocking at the door.
(The fields have gathered into themselves.)

               *

Someone carves his son’s heart in the night.
(Here is a paint brush, here is the sky.)

               *

Someone is putting a stamp on a card.
(A rabbit hangs from its paws in the window.)

               *

Someone opens a black umbrella.
(Do you think that rabbit sees us?)







--Jonah Winter, 2005




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