Palm Sun-day, Palm Moon-night

~ POSTING EARLY FOR PALM SUNDAY ~

SCOTTSDALE PALMS BY SUNLIGHT & MOONLIGHT
~ ACCUSTOMED, CEREMONIOUS ~

"Our souls are some glorious substance of the divine
that no sentry wants to stop.

Live without thought of dying,
for dying is not a truth.

We have swayed on the sky's limb together,
many years there the same leaves grow."

~ St. Catherine of Siena, 1347 - 1380 ~

"They kiss sometimes when no one is looking,
the sun and moon.

Why are they so shy before us --
haven't we all seen someone making love?"

~ St. Catherine of Siena, 1347 - 1380 ~
14th - Century Scholastic philosopher and theologian

Place

On the last day of the world
I would want to plant a tree

what for
not for the fruit

the tree that bears the fruit
is not the one that was planted

I want the tree that stands
in the earth for the first time

with the sun already
going down

and the water
touching its roots

in the earth full of the dead
and the clouds passing

one by one
over its leaves

by W.S. Merwin, 1927 - 2019
from his book The Rain in the Trees

Or maybe a cactus . . .

or one of these amazing life forms
that surrounded us in Scottsdale!

Strelitzia reginae, commonly known as
the crane flower, bird of paradise

Next Fortnightly Post
Thursday, April 28th

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