Breeze

What if our prayers were the wind to God, and carried our thoughts like the smell of cut grass and barbecued meat and skunk musk and cow dung and tire-kicked dust?

Carried our thoughts to God, standing in the sunlit fields of heaven— our thoughts, collecting like cottonwood seeds in the arches of his feet?

Cottonwood seeds, shifting and shivering like faith; settling on his clothes; clinging to the backs of his hands; to his hair, in a wavering halo?

What if God went carefully about his hallowed work there in the sifting, fitful air, not wishing to dislodge a single thought from its place with him?