*Things As They Are

underneath

an ember

in the night

stirs

from cell to cell

 from each to each

put there

under the spell

of reasons

from above

when things as they are

become clear

then

stirs a temper

underneath

so then

cell by cell

each

learns to leave

the fear

-Jerry Schroeder, Cap.

*Skywater

in

not telling how

without touching

they met

far enough with the other

to rain

the cry of heaven

upon the dry

of earth

to draw the earth

of father

to the sky of mother

so

a child

named

Silence

Everlasting

is 

born

to be known

thereafter 

as

no

other

-Jerry Schroeder,  Cap.