Lawrence Hall, HSG
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                                  Sacrifice in a Low Place

                                           Cf. 1 Kings 3

I would go to a high place and sacrifice to God
But there is no high place; this is an alluvial plain
Dark with conifers except along the sloughs
Dark in their own ways with cypress and oak

And I am old, too old to be a prophet
And I have often asked for all the wrong things
So I will take those things into the dark
And leave them at the foot of a pagan oak

I will learn the statutes from the whisperings
I will go into the quiet, and listen for God