Holy Mary

San Xavier Mission

Tucson, Arizona

January 2011

"nothing is born fully formed; nothing dies."

in silence

pray me into consciousness,

mother divine

pray me into dust and diamond - 

pray me into rocks and holiness

and rivers.

pray me raw into form.

pray the wheel a-fire,

dear mother.

pray me into formless annihilation

then pray me back again,

my mother.

pray me back again.