Faucet, pump, irrigation line
Twin fawns, born late July
Wood floor boards after foot traffic
Dahlias in full bloom
Sweet Pea seedlings in Grandma’s enamelware pot
Native seeds littering forest floors
Travel-weary salmon
The child, returning home from school
My dog, who drinks most before going outside
Visiting Monarch butterflies
Dry ground
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something is worth doing no matter how it turns out.” Vaclav Havel,
Things That Need Water
Are also things that could use a prayer,
That is to say–most everything needs water.
Prayer is like water.
The dry ground in late summer
The person exhausted by a life of never enough
The child striving to look like others; to ‘fit’
The one who feels so lonely.
All these need water, which is prayer.
Like water, prayer changes things,
Provides hope,
Which is not to say with certainty
That things will turn out well,
But that certainly a thing is
worth striving toward no matter how it turns out.
Jaqui Eicher 