Jnana Hodson’s chapbook, Harbor of Grace, was issued in August 2012 by Fowlpox Press. He is the author of 2 published novels. Visit his blog.
With an Air of Grace
By Jnana Hodson
that day I stood with her
as my birth-given namesake claimed
my own Rachel
in my eighteen years
in this sojourn, to Jacob’s fourteen
* * *
O Holy One, pace us and focus us
on what we are meant to do
essentially, purely
* * *
to be lean and sturdy
as an ideal
uncluttered, precise
with an air of grace
made to fit
