I believe that spirit and healing can be found in everything and through every practice… As the Dalai Lama says, "We must make room for all believers, and also, room for the non-believers." The poem Stone Altar came to me after moving into my new home, after I made my Stone Altar. Though it is written in third person, it is I who I am speaking of in the poem. Stone Altar She balances her stones, one on top of the other, rocks she’s collected from all over the U.S. India, Europe, and Canada, places them onto a plate. She calls them stone people. Holds the spirit of each one, feeling their ruggedness, tracing the cracks, bumps, knots of earth, hoping somehow her hands are able to bring healing, peace to the people, to the ancestors, to the memories stored inside the stones. She picks up a gray one from Terezin concentration camp, imagines herself rubbing the worry from it while remembering the gui...
Women's Spiritual Poetry