Liturgy of the Ordinary Sunday
For the congregation of wheels and bread and salt water.
Call: The sun has opened every angle of the day.
Response: We are here, we are here, we are here.
Call: Who set the table with salmon the colour of sunrise?
Response: We did not set it. It was already given.
Call: Who counted the steps?
Response: No one counted. The body kept its own tally.
Call: Nine thousand two hundred and seventy-four.
Response: Each one a word in a prayer we didn't know we were saying.
Call: The children's wheels are turning.
Response: Let them turn. Let them turn. Let them never stop turning.
Call: Someone said stop it.
Response: And no one stopped.
Call: The harbour broke itself into blues.
Response: And the blues put themselves back together as green.
Call: Whose shadow fell across the decking?
Response: Everyone's. All at once.
Call: What do we owe this day?
Response: Nothing. It came free. It will not come again.
Call: Then what do we do?
Response: We eat the fish. We chase the children. We let the light
pass through us as though we are made of glass.
Call: Are we made of glass?
Response: Today we are. Today we are.
Amen. Amen. The corrugated iron says amen.