SamadhiMuse

         Rose, it gave me such a pleasure
            to help with the children when you were sick today.
         I know I wasn’t as much help as I could have been
            fussing with the phone and the newspaper
         but it made me realize what you do with them
            like a farmer who digs his hands
               deep into the soil that is his life.
         You see them as life brimming, raw with promise.
            A treasure of people just beginning.
            A future world you can mother and comfort.
         It was such simple pleasure to smile and hold them.
            They saw my feelings and responded to me.
               But you had already made that place
               where I came to visit and open to them.
         It was a day well spent and badly needed.
            Somethings cut deeper than others
               and you’ve found one, my lover, wife, and friend.
         You nurture them and me in the sunshine
            of your love and cherishing
               and I see now
                     how you let God work through you.
                                 gallagher
                                 1/20/86 #2

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