Pray

People pray to each other. The way I say ‘you’ to someone else, respectfully, intimately, desperately. The way someone says ‘you’ to me, hopefully, expectantly, intensely …”— Huub Oosterhuis, epigraph to “Sanctuary” by Jean Valentine, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003 (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)