Conversations with doG

Talking to my rescue dog

Out loud in the forest

In a wonder of the fog

A mysterious outburst

What began as awkward

A daily spiritual practice

To speak audibly to God

Pursuant order of service

Conversations with dog

Starting quite prescriptive

In vocalizing my prayers

When words were elusive

Yet in time I softened

I dropped on through

As if a trap door opened

Or my sound as smoke up a flew

Words flowed on whirls

Wisps of tongue turning

Like riding shimmers twirl

Or licks of fire burning

And here with my dog

I’m feeling his response

Soul creature of no words

Yet palpability of alive Silence

His conversation with me

Expands to hold surround

Language of tree, earth, sea

My words meet the profound

What began as awkward

A daily spiritual practice

To speak audibly to God

Now reflexive divine service—

Our Origins written unscripted

My devotion, a manner of being

Becoming a State of Poetry—

In wordless unknowable seeing

Unscrolls my Poetry as Prayer