Abundance - Poetry - Poem

National Catholic Reporter, Nov 15, 2002 by Julie Geiger

Abundance

   The old farmhouse waits,
   with lilacs
   and iris blooming,
   for the grievers to arrive--

   The mothers, the brothers,
   the sisters, the fathers,
   the children--the large,
   aching body of humanity--

   the train of black and
   blue travelers,
   from Tennessee
   and Rome, Italy.

   The cobwebs are swept,
   the dishes are done,
   the beds are made,
   the curtains drawn--

   The sun is shining,
   the grass is long--
   uncut, and ugly-beautiful,
   with yellow dandelions.

   Profuse
   abundance
   of light
   and dark.

--Julie Geiger Everest, Kan.

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