News at Eleven: That plenitude expresses itself

as the physical exuberance of the familiar, "the daily pleasures and sufferings/of usual people, the Saturday nights/and Sunday mornings of human life." These oblique examples of prayer [by Edward Hirsch] lead us back to the dignity of our everyday existence:

Because this world, too, needs our unmixed
Attention, because it is not heaven

but earth that needs us, because
it is only earth--limited, sensuous
earth that is so fleeting, so real.

It is precisely the ephemeral that requires our care, the momentary that is "so real."

from Tablet: The Earthly Dreamer

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