Ordinary Alleluias

while humanity seeks religious experience exotic and rare around us life articulates ecstatic prayer

we overlook magenta hosannas each morning sun rises again

we mutter and curse the sacrament of rain those tears of the gods shed to wash away our pain

eyes narrowed

we search for pillars of fire

and clouds in the sky

illiterate to prophecy

lightning writes before our eyes

morning wind whispers softly of comfort and grace in intercession willow's branches sway and raise

river sings hymns

and

stones shout praise!

come from the fringes to commune with the blessed bees who daily journey in spiraled labyrinths of flight