A Woman Kneeling
by Jeremy Kiskadden
May 28, 2008 — Published in Verse
Once there were no such things
as cathedrals.
Only a woman kneeling, hands
together, begging
water from the stream.
And that was prayer enough.
In that gesture,
quietly she praised both star and
shade-tree, with her
hands cupped, wet and thankful.
Every motion had a mouth to sing
a psalm for what hides in the brush.
Jeremy Kiskadden
Jeremy Kiskadden is finishing a B.A. Music Performance at York College and plans to get his M.A. in Transpersonal Counseling at Naropa University. He wants to talk to you about poetry, and will climb a tree to do so if necessary. He practices his whistling.
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