CONSIDER THE RAVENS

 i.

no anxiety

when barrel-rolling in flight

over bogachiel

ii.

unseen guardian

heard among sitka spruce

following our path

iii.

katanoeo

study with intensity

Christ’s corvus corax

iv.

hand-crafted in clay

birthed in crucible of kiln

take flight heart to heart

v.

when you came to church

perched there in the alder tree

my soul exalted

Notes: 

bogachiel--name of a mountain in Olympic National Park where we witnessed ravens barrel-rolling;

katanoeo--verb used by Jesus in Luke  12:24, meaning "study with intensity", to "consider" the ravens

corvus corax--Latin for Common Raven