Heart Work

It is a heart work

no

one comes out of closed-up heart work feeling like

a part of her self wasn’t excised;

she has to renew and regenerate

resulting in a destination –

the completion of divine restitution

 

But it is a heart-work

different from all others

She is

even in all her confusion

still a very real drop of rain amongst hundreds

that fell on the earth’s head

ran down its nose

wrinkled its forehead

and baptized its toes