and, glimmer, it flies

and, glimmer, it flies: a poem there is something of a catechesis in this, right hand over left.

this received---very of Very, true of True. there is something of a hymnody in the motion,

"This is the---of---broken for you." right hand over left.

do not grasp. do not grasp. receive.

three times round the forehead whisper it and make there the old sign---forehead stomach left right--- right hand over left.

this is called ordinary in the grocery aisle. this is called imbibed on the kitchen table.

in our living rooms we passed a tray and placed right hand over left. we ate it with stilton and quince paste and when the cup overturned everyone feared the rug would stain. no one bothered with the The. the rug would stain. right hand over left.

in the rhythm of the staccato in the verse turned into itself in the mother-cry out from Egypt in the The that was, is, ever shalt right hand over left.

see daughter lilies robed in glory. right hand over left. see waters turn over waters. right hand over left.

somewhere written is the old enchantment: in the fullness of time.

right hand over left.

look not too long to the East for the hour is known but to--- see how suddenly it seems known, right hand over left, but look too long in the ancient river to see the known thing known--- and, glimmer, it flies.

Meet Preston

Preston is a twenty-something once-upon-a-time conservative Southern Baptist from Texas who learned to read saints, cross himself, and move across the world to China, England, and Scotland. Since, he's been theologically conservative, oft politically liberal, but radically pro-life, a believer in sacraments and sacramentality, a sort-of Christian feminist, an idealist pacifist who also understands the need for civil defense ... and a handful of everything else in-between. He thinks of himself now as a haphazard and patchwork Bapto-Anglican, though he is becoming confirmed in the Anglican tradition. This blog is his repository of working this whole faith thing out day by day, bird by bird. His first book, Tables in the Wilderness, a memoir of God found, lost, and found again, is due out autumn 2014 with Zondervan.