Last week I visited the class of a friend and colleague and shared with the group an Alberto Ríos poem. I was reminded again how much I love his work. There is both an accessibility and a generosity that I am drawn to, and he deftly says big things in small, precise ways.
This poem was originally published in a journal of the Yale Divinity School, and its theme, that things are forever falling apart and being put back together, is one of both body and spirit. The issue it was in was titled, Spirit and Politics: Finding Our Way, and was published in Fall 2016, so there is, as ever, more that it wants to say.
“Something is always broken
But the world endures the break”
