Erika Koenig-Workman

Everything Returned Ten Thousand Fold


I remember


Standing on the edge of a cliff ground crumbling


Beneath my feet


Was this abyss of my

own making


When did this quake

begin to rupture


Where did it start

How will it end


In between holy matter and spirit is invisible thread

It is wound in deep places I know nothing about


This filament

This kind of tight rope

We walk


Has healed me for

Twelve years


How


Folds within folds like

petals within petals of a finest rose


Interwoven

Me in you

You in me


It is you

Who called me


I heard you

I listened

I waited


With you and in you


Intricate

Sharp

Pains


Made their route

To the other side


Yes you said

It is


This Way


Everything is returned

Ten Thousand fold