Capabilities of Water

WHAT HE DOES WITH HIS DREAM

He wants a quiet divorce

and then he has that dream.

…y le pondrás su nombre Jesús.

Any dream makes a mess, no?

¿Cada sueño hace un fracaso?

Joseph brings it out slow

in his dream/breath.

He says yes to what can’t be seen.

Jim Bodeen

12 October 2013

DESERT RIVER RUN

Jesus can ride with us

but no special treatment.

He’d be insulted. Like

anybody else, ok? Pero

también esto está en la Biblia

y tenemos que reconocerlo.

So says el Cubano

Justo Gonzalez,

one of our guides. Karen says

it’s more believable this way.

Nothing unbelievable, I say back.

It’s only unbelievable

because it’s all believable.

Reclaiming reality is theology’s job.

What it is. Jesus,

what say you of the imagination?

This is a basement church.

Ten of us. Two languages.

The poet of late coffee and oranges

talking two ways—

Consciousness and imagination.

He chose imagination.

Wouldn’t I cash in my travel miles

for lyric and wonder.

Jim Bodeen

11-12 October 2013