The Formation of Faith

Faith is formed

in the supple heart

when imagination

is a wide lens

and the eyes are all

a-wonder

When this child’s

nighttime

prayers, for pecans

to fall from

a thistlewisp stick,

produce an abundance.

It may lie

dormant for some time

as exigencies

form cataracts

to cloud the next

dimension.

But faith revives

and hope renews

when one most dearly loved

extends an aged, suffering hand

and asks permission

to go