Sunday I Go To Church

Cool Roman Catholic insignia

The Flaneur makes with the Sign of the Cross

The secular world presents a distorted view of our Church

 It is a place of solace and salvation,

Arms wide open to all souls

A Heraldry of the Most High

None were more saddened 

Than the faithful themselves

 

 Sculpture centers the healing garden

   Across the estuary

Lies legendary Fairyland

 On this rock I will build my Church

 The course of a life is aleatory,
Subject to the unexpected

 By the top of Lake Merritt,
Imagining a world without cars

 Another Christian church not far away,
An eternal verity

 Into the lacuna 

An inquiry into the mystery of life

When I return to my chamber

I perceive myself closer to heaven

3-5 August 2015