”The importance of prayer is to demonstrate one’s attentiveness to the status of its own finitude.” Takeshi Morisato, Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy, Bloomsbury, p. 172.
I may not be re-
ligious but there are times
prayer stops me cold.
Like the resonance
of Basho’s elsewhere cuckoo.
In the overcast,
the green fire of a mallard
from the dark water.
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