The Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos

A Series of Poems from El Retiro

By: Christine Rodgers, July 2008

Decoration for Poetry
Four

The whole world
is visible
through this
plain, wooden
arch – the
startling blue
wing of the low
flying bird – the
bushes and boughs
in coats of shining
green – and the red,
red path where we
walk each day
slowly and sweetly
with Jesus.