In 2011, he spent the entire year composing a special prayer for every month. He explained that he felt these words welling up within him and they yearned to to be put to paper. At Christmas he presented the collection, entitled “Catechisms”, as a gift to his family and friends; a piece of his soul offered forth. The one for October is a favorite of mine so I thought I’d share it with our readers.

October Prayer

God showed light sideways again

this month like a raid

on this world

on this garden given us

and showed once again

what had become grainy to see.

And it hit me

I’m being overseen

I’m being pointed, anointed

arrested

kindly toward what is mine

for now.

•

And I am lighter myself

by this

And my mind combs memory for evidence

and gratitude long before

Thanksgiving.

•

Squirrel and chipmunk industry

is a sight to be seen

in premonition of a fallow time.

Who sent this wisdom to ones

so young

Who could not know what was to come

With greater margin,

humans fail

Where lesser beings prevail –

all to say,

The lessons come

The lessons go

But good to know

They come again

Slow to grow

Long to know

Faith of months

Faith of years

Become us

Most beautifully lit in this

fine October.

•

Once again made a glad being.

Walking blocks of Manhattan, my steps

catch every light.

I am given divine gait

I am making time

and gaining ground

Feeling smiled upon.

– Bobby McAlpine – Catechisms

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