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barefoot jesus coughing in the rain in samaria    no one good in sight and the figs not ripe
you imagine a fever and you imagine his    thought sometimes you almost know what    he saw

a man stumbles to the water to wash his blind    eyes and opens them to an old world
does he hear a sparrow darting through air or    does he enter darkness once again?

you love the story of assisi preaching to the    birds calling on them to sing praises to
   the lord
and they sang their wings fluttering the    songbirds sang but you wonder where the    hawk flew

you lose the world over and over love is unruly    the disorder that brings good it can it can
it's what you hold here your children your lover    death in your heart it's possible

who is it you hear speak as you speak sing as    you sing what voices live in you?
a harsh call in the clearing and that breath that    deep breath you take from the lord