December 8, 2014

such love


Wring Out My Clothes 
~Francis of Assisi


Such love does
the sky now pour,
that whenever I stand in a field,

I have to wring out the light
when I get
home.

"Wring Out My Clothes" by Francis of Assisi. 
Text as published in Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West