NAPOMO: Because apparently I only remember to post poems when their authors come up in the Kalender

[tree_and_leaf]

Today is the feast of Catherine of Siena, so here is an extract from her writings:


We were enclosed,
O eternal Father,
within the garden of your breast.
You drew us out of your holy mind
like a flower
petaled with our soul's three powers,
and into each power
you put the whole plant,
so that they might bear fruit in your garden,
might come back to you
with the fruit you gave them.
And you would come back to the soul,
to fill her with your blessedness.
There the soul dwells --
like the fish in the sea
and the sea in the fish.

(Trans. Suzanne Noffke)