Sunday, March 16, 2025

Wendell Berry poem for Sunday, March, 16, 2025

 


An Embarrassment

by Wendell Berry

"Do you want to ask
the blessing?"

"No. If you do,
go ahead."

He went ahead:
his prayer dressed up

in Sunday clothes
rose a few feet

and dropped with a soft
thump.

If a lonely soul
did ever cry out

in company its true
outcry to God,

it would be as though
at a sedate party
a man suddenly
removed his clothes

and took his wife
passionately into his arms.


"An Embarrassment" by Wendell Berry from Leavings. © Counterpoint, 2010

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