Next Sunday, March 11, one year will have passed since Japan’s people experienced a wave of change through a devastating tsunami. Reflective times, especially for the many families who lost dear ones, friends, homes, livelihoods, and all those who were touched in one way or another by the traumatic events of the day, and all of us around the world who hold the images indelibly etched in our heart’s memory. May the healing presence of the divine illuminate our future …
hawthorn flowers white
among a debris of homes
families vanished
* * * *
a field of rubble
faded snapshot of a child
splashing in a wave
* * *
sunlight in a puddle
a bird dowses its feathers
no other sound
* * *
emerald seedlings
loosen the concrete highway
soft patter of feet
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