Glisten

Glisten

Luci Shaw

St. Francis said that
every tree in the forest
should be decorated
with lights, since that is
a tree’s true nature.

Sometimes, after
a cold rain has almost
drowned the leaves,
this bright miracle happens
a baptism. They glisten
in the deep forest,
whether we see them,
or not.

Like the trees I long,
hope, trust, to shine
with a light beyond my own.
To join the incandescence
of the whole universe,
giving glory back to the God
who is its Light.

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Luci Shaw
Poet & Editor

Luci was the co-founder and later president of Harold Shaw Publishers, and since 1988 has been a Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada. She is a charter member of the Chrysostom Society of Writers, and is the author of fourteen volumes of poetry including Angels Everywhere, The Generosity, Eye of the Beholder & Sea Glass: New & Selected Poems (WordFarm, 2016). Shaw has also authored several non-fiction prose books, including Water My Soul: Cultivating the Interior Life (Zondervan) and The Crime of Living Cautiously (InterVarsity).

Photography by Caroline Greb