The Secret of the Golden Flower

Chiara,
a play of light
golden as the
rising sun
over Assisi,
played out
over fifty years
of agonizing sickness
after sickness
and vicious onslaughts
of the evil one.
She taught her
dearly loved sisters,
in O, a thousand ways,
the adoration and praises
of the Most High,
the passionate cultivation
of the enclosed garden...
Jesus,
and a swift attention
to the tremulous stirring of
the Spirit's wings.
Once while listening
to a sermon
of Brother Philip,
she was seen
clear and bright
as day,
holding the Holy Child -
enfolded in the
secret of the golden flower.

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