Under The Olive Tree

I’ve traveled a thousand miles today, Maybe ten thousand miles, I went all the way from the most mundane, The most insignificant tasks, That were urgent, and pressing and weighty And demanding, and of the utmost consequence To events that transcend both time and space And breath and life And death and resurrection I went [...]

  Under the Olive Tree   Under the olive tree I sat, I watched, I listened Through scorching heat of summer And biting wintry winds At harvest time the olives fell Drumming out their plight Abandoned, they were cast away Forsaken, no one gathered them A waste, while ambitious men nearby Ran to catch the [...]