ONE CERTAIN STONE

 

ONE CERTAIN STONE

      --for Lea Ramirez

We talked once of stones

and you remembered other

things I had forgotten

that had nothing

to do with stones.

So much like mountains

even in our hands

they carry news

of mountain majesty

in our pockets

how like tiny moments

in our lives

when they remind us

that time, that song,

that parable of Jesus

woman at the well

how often stone and water,

for instance,

and

As children

we remember singing,

the wise man

building his house

on the rock,

and especially for those

of us who’ve said

in more ways than one

how we love certain stones,

yes love them, we say,

because we don’t have

another word for them,

don’t we—each of us--

have a stone we can visit

when we’re left alone?

A stone where the beloved

will meet us

and we will be one.

Love,

Jim and Karen