Brokenness: Returning to Wholeness

Event Details

Time: February 19, 2012 from 11am to 12:30pm
Location: First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia
Street: 2125 Chestnut Street
City/Town: Philadelphia, PA 19103
Website or Map: http://www.philauu.org
Phone: 215-563-3980
Event Type: worship
Organized By: Rev. Nate Walker
Latest Activity: Feb 7

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Today's service draws upon Dorianne Laux's poem, What's Broken:

The slate black sky. The middle step

of the back porch. And long ago

my mother’s necklace, the beads

rolling north and south. Broken

the rose stem, water into drops, glass

knobs on the bedroom door. Last summer’s

pot of parsley and mint, white roots

shooting like streamers through the cracks.

Years ago the cat’s tail, the bird bath,

the car hood’s rusted latch. Broken

little finger on my right hand at birth—

I was pulled out too fast. What hasn’t

been rent, divided, split? Broken

the days into nights, the night sky

into stars, the stars into patterns

I make up as I trace them

with a broken-off blade

of grass. Possible, unthinkable,

the cricket’s tiny back as I lie

on the lawn in the dark, my heart

a blue cup fallen from someone’s hands.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Dorianne Laux, "What’s Broken" from Facts About The Moon. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/238770

Photo: "Brokenness" by Mr. King Kaz

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