Leaping Into Gold

By every power, by heart and tongue,

by act and deed, your praise be sung.

Inflame with perfect love each sense,

that others’ souls may kindle thence.

                                              Universalis Hymn

                                                                                                               Google Images

We gathered the fallen pages of light

from the books of summer,

and what meaning we ran beneath 

has come to settle

on the floor of afternoon,

where we piled our Eden high,

wild with joy 

leaping up

into the falling,

down onto the disheveling,

laughing in the ways

we are held

in love;

in His smoldering

garden

of autumn,

 inflaming

 what is lost,

and what is given

away.