Struggle and Doxology

Struggle and Doxology

Maura H. Harrison

     “An enchanted forest requires a margin, 
     even an elaborate border.” — C.S. Lewis

Uniquely ordinary, more at ease
With weakness as a strength, Time is away
At endless play and Days plant paradox—
Small purple Both-and-Ands that hide and seek

Within the common Either-Or and bloom
By standing on their heads. They wave their legs
And walk upon the sky, a living line
Of pilgrim filigree, a holy edge

Of foolishness, mysterious contradictions
That riddle boundaries round our Being-Be.
When Time returns, we are particular
And held, beheld, and beautiful as born.

Behold, we’re drawn with discipline, both bound
And free, both struggle and doxology. 

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Maura H. Harrison
Poet & Photographer

Maura is a poet and photographer from Fredericksburg, VA.

This essay is featured in Ekstasis Issue 10 Print Edition

Photography by Mathias Reding