Erika Koenig-Workman

The Space in Between


Holy Saturday

the space in between

death then life

life then death

 

Is where we will be for now

biding our time naturally

trying to catch the hours

 

Where does the time go Eve asks

I do not know replied Adam

It is in this aquiline hour glass Mary said

I am the One who reverses time replied Jesus

 

Thank all Goodness remarked the Hummingbird

As I was uncertain so afraid that all might be lost

Oh hummingbird nudged dragonfly

Can you not see the secret of all things

 

It is in the dying of a thing that new life

is reborn to a strange form barely recognizable

Ah I see said Hummingbird I must practice then

stillness of being so that I will forever remember