Thin places

I really did google thin places as if there would be some sort of thin place directory.  There wasn*t.  I only found people arguing about its origins and who owned it.  I was looking for a map.  No map.  I knew my experience in Santa Fe was of a thin place.  But is it for everyone?  Probably not.  I list the responses I got from four separate Navaho about the Corn Dance.  I think about the Eucharist and our attempts to describe it.  Perhaps the only real answer is How was it for you?

While I wait to find out

About Iona,

I wonder if there is a map

Of the thin places

Of the world,

The places where heaven and earth

Meet,

Or at least breathe

into each other.

Perhaps I can go

To one of them.

My research says

There is no common mind around

Who has ownership

Of the term

Thin places.

Certainly no map

Exists.

I smelled heaven*s breath

When I stayed in Santa Fe,

The scent at morning*s arrival,

The thinner air,

Two coyotes passed me by

At dusk.

The indefinable Corn Dance:

No one would name its meaning

Except

I don*t know

Or

I*m not allowed to tell.

And finally

How was that for you?

What did it mean to you?

No one owns the thin place,

The meaning

Of the thin place.

There is no map.

I am told in Iona the air

Is thin.

Perhaps I will see

What it means to me.