Oh, Ye Donkey

(Reflections on a visit to the Donkey Sanctuary in Hopland, Ca  2023)

 

Oh, ye donkey

Oh, ye donkey ears

Oh, ye donkey hair

Oh, ye donkey eyes —

those eyes!

 

Grace to the manchild who leadeth us 

beside the still, dry creeks

and lay down in the pastures

beside the donkeys.

 

Witness to the lovely awakening  

to the gentleness of these 

servant beasts and to 

their power to change lives.

 

We were comforted and 

feared no evil. We reveled 

that day in donkey-ness.

In those soft donkey ears.

 

And, oh, those donkey eyes —

those eyes!