To build a wall

After Nehemiah 3:1-32 and Ephesians 2:12-14

To build a wall

or rebuild a wall

requires the mending

of broken gates,

the gates punctuating

the wall as it encircles

protectively, a mother

hawk. Brick by brick’

and stone by stone

the wall rises aside the gates

and lengthens connection

in completion.

Photograph by Rajesh Misra via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.