Ordinary Time

(kaleidoscope)

Green

is the color

of ordinary time,

the color of pastures

and trees

and long lush lawns,

the color of comfort

and peace

fullness.

Red marks the

extraordinary

the shock of the passage

of time; the monumental

disruptions;

the preparedness 

for change, for birth, for death.

Purple,k too, and white--

that pure

absence of color

anticipating 

pastel--

the return of green.

We live in the cycle of color;

we live in the cycle of time

of pause

of waiting

anticipating

the whirl

of the 

kaleidoscope

wheel.