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Butler UniversityDigital Commons @ Butler UniversityOn Earth As It Is1-1-2011FOR YOUAdam JordanFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/onearthPart of the Creative Writing Commons, and the Religion CommonsThis Book is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ Butler University. It has been accepted for inclusion in On Earth As It Is byan authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Butler University. For more information, please contact fgaede@butler.edu.Recommended CitationJordan, Adam, "FOR YOU" (2011). On Earth As It Is. Book 13.http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/onearth/13HOMEABOUTAUTHORSCONTACTon earth as it isprayer as story, story as prayer   photo by matthew simmons FOR YOUAdam JordanFOR YOU,I checked the bush. I tried the sky, the crickets' legs, soccer fields, and apples' cores. I stoodunderthunderclouds, kitchen counters, catechism teachers inside superstores. I studiedCrusoe's isolationafter Harold and the Purple Crayon. I drew the paths marshmallows meltthrough hot chocolate, thepriest moves his arms in, venetian blinds rise up, and morninglights the staircase. I multiplied myself inmirrors, in thought, in prayer, my doubts by mybooks, like blue-jays by the bird-feeders. I took thelong walk home without a coat, thetennis court oath with twins who moved away. I collected a deckof leaves and needles,recorded the chances of each commercial, laminated mustard seeds fromneighbors'gardens. I studied age rings from my climbing trees and the planets' ellipses. I foundnothingas deep as the vacuum of space that pleases me best. My only conviction that lasts,I remember apicture taken by Voyager as it left our solar system, looking back, where theEarth appears faintly asa bluish-green period at the end of a paragraph.Adam Jordan works with Autistic kids in rural Pennsylvania and is an atheist. He once thought he mightbecome a priest.<---Next Previous--->   Copyright ? 2010 by On Earth As It Is.

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