(x = space)

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Difficult Sky

(hard to read, to navigate)

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Today is

Strange

In our little corner

Within corners

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Particles are falling through

The sky

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They could be sleet

They could be hail

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Either way,

Like a warning

Not that we feel apocalypse

We mainly feel the strangeness

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And that might be the warning:

Today is strange

Be ready

By not being ready

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And it’s Ash Wednesday

So try to make

A Christian meaning

Out of that

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Well,

Christ came to save the world

And this day needs

Saving

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But simply go inside,

Which might be enough of

A measure

With no need to go all

Soteriological

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Wear the ashes:

Outside, they might run

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Inside, they might

Instruct

In safety

And in contemplation

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Or leave your foreheads clean

And think about the ashes

On the inside

(of the inside),

The way thinking might be

Sectarian

Or universalist

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Either way

If you permit,

Have a good, ashy

Gray day

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Sunny where you are

Perhaps

Or raining

Or another kind of storm

Still for liturgy

Or hearts or minds

Gray day

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C L Couch

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