This Is My Body

God - - my Marrow, Shadow Substance,
Stillness in my churning hours.

Heartbeat, Trickster,
Old Shape-Shifting,
Hare, now Fox, now Grass, now Lamb,
now Jackdaw, Spider, Heifer, Corn,
now Herring, Grape, and Grain,
now You and Me,
now old Oak Tree - -
Christ, each moment,
altared

©Barbara Fryrear 1999