A homecoming

 A Homecoming

A collaboration 

One faith is bondage. Two

are free. In the trust

of old love, cultivation shows

a dark graceful wilderness 

at its heart. Wild

in that wilderness, we roam 

the distances of our faith,

safe beyond the bounds

of what we know. O love,

open. Show me

my country. Take me home.

Wendell Berry

And I roam within this

wilderness of home

the fields with the 

heavens meeting

And in my longing

to be as one 

two within this wild 

journey come alongside

desperate to escape

leaving me with just 

field and sky and the

exhilaration of in that moment

I was home. 

John Clare Stokes