QUILT PSALM

QUILT PSALM

Thou Art the Part that means the Whole –
Thou Art are the veiled Gestalt –
Thou Art are the Body for the Soul –
The Might that may Exalt.

Out of Small things proceeding Great –
Out of the Dust a Breath –
Out of the Earth a grander Fate –
The Life that hampers Death.

Thou Art the Symbol and the Sign –
Thou Art the Sacrament –
Thou Art the delicate Design
That Love can Represent.

Into Thy Covenant we Come –
Into the Promised Land –
Into the Fulness of all Time –
The Power of Thy Hand.

(23 March 2010, Provo, common meter, 8-6-8-6)

COMPOSER PSALM

COMPOSER PSALM

These words are waiting for the tunes
That voices will provide –
Without the music they are null –
Mere tokens to confide.

Thy melodies – with harmonies –
Will make them come alive –
This reticence is silent sign
Until the notes arrive.

(13 March 2010, Provo, Utah)

TIMPANOGOS PSALM

TIMPANOGOS PSALM

The sky shone through the Chandelier –
The Tree of Gold held Light –
Reflections flickered on the Dome
Ineffably as sight.

The Life shown by the Holy One –
A Pharos for our feet –
Is glimmering with promises
Indelible and fleet.

The Lamb shorn by Mortality
Is crowned the Lamp of Kings –
The shimmer of His Shepherding
Investitures all things.

(27 March 2010, American Fork, Utah)

RECOVERY PSALM

RECOVERY PSALM

I walked along the Galilee
A year ago this way –
The moon was playing lost and found
In clouds of silky whey.

I paced the shore of rippled silt –
Light lapped across the bay
As lunar Levitation sank
Into the cusp of day.

(25 March 2010, Provo, Utah)