Wring Out My Clothes

Such love does

the sky now pour,

that whenever I stand in a field,

I have to wring out the light

when I get

home.

Poem: by St. Francis of Assisi, translated by Daniel Ladinsky, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Volumes from the East and West, copyright © Daniel Ladinsky 2002. 

Image: The Great Washday Before the City from the alchemical handbook Splendor Solis, 1531.