Foundational Grace

There are times when a shimmering stillness

emerges suddenly and sensuously

from within day’s fretting and toil and task

like marrow penetrating the very bones

and breath of our life;

when all glistens and sings in a quietude of aliveness--

body and world bathing in all-encompassing calm,

a buoyant space of allowing without judgement and speech,

no separation nor need for thought to dissect

this mystery of wholeness risen from root,

nor extraneous words, well-intentioned but paltry,

this attempt to describe and to trace an everywhere

but nowhere of place in lines such as these--

faint reflections of luminous foundational grace.