Disruptive desire

Faith’s flavor

Fortune flavors faith
In hearts flower fate
Seeds cast in the wind
choose not the soil they bless
Seizing the earth as they root
they rise to bear love’s fruits.

T.P. Wilkinson, Dr. rer. pol. writes, teaches History and English, directs theatre and coaches cricket between the cradles of Heine and Saramago. He is author of Unbecoming American: A War Memoir and also Church Clothes, Land, Mission and the End of Apartheid in South Africa. Read other articles by T.P..