✨ Boat Prayer

the innermost petals ...

Boat Prayer

I.

I hold my hands in the shape of a boat to deliver
this prayer.

II.

Like a flower, my hands the innermost petals,
the prayer my own heart.

III.

The moon-slip in this dusk sky, hands, a boat
in darkness.

—Karla Van Vliet

From Bone Scribed: poems || asemics, Shanti Arts Publishing, Copyright © 2024. Used by permission of the poet. Photo by Nong, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.