Cartography of Salvation
By Mark D. Stucky
No outline on a globe.
No page in an atlas.
No ink on a road map.
No pixels in Google.
But parabolically defined
by two roads, one wide, one narrow,
one seducing toward stealthy corruption,
one steering toward a new creation,
a cartography of salvation
etched in ancient, timeless words.
And when we feel lost
or take a wrong turn,
congested is the highway,
but freer is the slender street.
So let us choose our exits wisely
on those ethereal roundabouts.
(First published in Earth & Altar, 21 Dec. 2023. See also my related poems “Life Labyrinths,” “Quantum Acts of Kindness,” “Margin of Error,” and "Bathing With Bathsheba.")
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