Reflections in the immediate post-operative time after having received a hip replacement joint into my body
And I sit…
where there are no definitions.
The borders of who I have been in everyday living
have been put away.
This new part of my body
is yielding to my skeleton
and my bones are cleaving to it
in mutual introduction.
What is expected in dailiness is not yet formed.
And so I sit
where something never before existing
is being formed and fused and held together
by the word of his power.
… While I wait in surrender
and yield to the new thing,
bidding it welcome
into the space
undefined.