A Miracle Is

"A leap out of one’s seemingly determined fate (an act of charity) can come from any number of experiences as the novel, An Estate of Memory, labored to prove, and this message is offered to the twentieth century as something to be treasured. More than ever, now: to believe there is something that is not simply a norm.

In a sense, when this epiphany takes place, it is a miracle. A miracle is an event that changes the meaning of things. It is like a thought that floats free of the surrounding systems and conventions, and enters, uninvited, a sentence, a stanza, a conversation, a lab result, and sends it on another path. A miracle can be the appearance of another person rising out of an emptiness that we are beginning to accept as permanent.

As Paul Celan wrote, it is

A RUMBLING: it is
Truth itself
walked among
men,
amidst the
metaphor squall."

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=240252

Eagle Poem by Joy Harjo

I came across this poem while perusing the books in the Religion section of the Samford University Bookstore...

http://www.panhala.net/Archive/Eagle_Poem.html


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