Here, in the Hofgarten
Water falls in pure-white allegro formations
Dancing in sunlight,
Inscribing a perfect circle
On the fountain’s small pond,
As holy, as soul-nurturing
As any Eucharistic wafer
Ever hoped to be,
While overhead,
A single white cloud,
Suspended in crystal blue clarity,
Casts its narrow shadow,
Into the center,
Whispers,
The way a wine-dipped wafer does,
Here!
In all this sunlight,
Dance!
Jonel Sallee