Instructions for Praying the Liturgy of the Hours, An Antiphon

Instructions for Praying the Liturgy of the Hours, Antiphon

it feels like a sea inside of you  (an unrelenting)  

it begins to un-wind all that is bound  (a spool un-spools)

a door begins to open  (and all the locked windows)

it begins to know you  (if it begins to pray you)

if it begins to pray you  (in words you’ve never heard)

if it has wings, or wind, or something  (and even if there are no words)

a wind of a wing (on your body)

and if your body bends and (un-wings)

this is (what you want)

prayer (and the small breeze in your chest)     

Jeanie Tomasko