Talking to God

         God is feeding me and I am praying
         for an appetite.
                    Flannery O'Connor



I read your words
listen to what you say
but I don't understand
that I need to ask
for an open space,
a place for you to enter,
to offer me Living water--
to feed me, to scrub
away the calluses
and the undergrowth
before I hear your voice