Ekstasis MagazineComment

To the River

Ekstasis MagazineComment
To the River

To the River

David Pickering

Past turnings teach: sometimes
The lights change right. ‘Sometimes
The gradient changes’
Just when it should. Sometimes 
The maps we made ourselves
Fall to pieces just in time.

Strange guides, stranger streams,
Hidden stairs, and laughter.
Old ways made new
Discover us. These roads
Take us to the river
No art can chart. It owns 
No mortal navigation, channels
Streams of light through any dark.
In knowledge all its own, it flows
To the city, not the sea.

David Pickering
Theological Educator

David Pickering is a tutor at the Church of England’s South Central Theological Education Institution. He has been published in Theology, The Heythrop Journal, New Blackfriars, The Newman Studies Journal, The Political Quarterly, The Chesterton Review, and the Journal of Inklings Studies.

Photography by Osmany Mederos