Quaker Meeting

meetinghouse-window
Photo © Larry Darnell

When it’s silent
in this room
Spirit
seeps through
windows,
fireplace,
doors
into hearts
and brings
a changed
Reality,
nourishing
heightened,
invisible.

We are agar
in a petri dish:
ground where
the sacred grows.

 

Kitty Bergel

Kitty Bergel lives in Chapel Hill, N.C.

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