Saint Francis and the Sow

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 20 Jul 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.

wetsheep1	20 Jul 2002
The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don't flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing; as Saint Francis put his hand on the creased forehead of the sow, and told her in words and in touch blessings of earth on the sow, and the sow began remembering all down her thick length, from the earthen snout all the way through the fodder and slops to the spiritual curl of the tail, from the hard spininess spiked out from the spine down through the great broken heart to the blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering from the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking and blowing beneath them: the long, perfect loveliness of sow. -- Galway Kinnell

Laurel	20 Jul 2002
That's very beautiful and profound. Laurel

divinerguy	20 Jul 2002
I agree, very nice.

RedWood	20 Jul 2002
Yes, very nice. (edited cuz i am a dork and put the thumbs down instead of the thumbs up)

wetsheep1	21 Jul 2002
LOL!

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