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We check our bank balances to keep an eye on our finances
but what about the sands of time
draining down
into the bottom bit of our hourglasses?

The Warmth of Wood

Jesus
was a carpenter’s son
and
I am a carpenter’s daughter…

Lord,
how do we know how much
we have learned to love
unless we are tested
and we see our score…..

I can still smell sawdust stuck on his sunburned skin;
see a light layer on his clothes
– a cinnamon caster-sugar coating

I wish I could go back in time for one more day