SWEET UNSECRETED LIGHT TERRESTRIAL CELESTIAL FLOODING MY EYES

 SWEET UNSECRETED LIGHT TERRESTRIAL CELESTIAL FLOODING MY EYES

sweet, unsecreted light terrestrial celestial flooding my eyes

the eyes of my eyes the heart of the heart and glancing off

small rain printed puddles as easily as you may from

ocean swells and the cream curve of the wave called devastation

the tremulous tremendous Ark of what is left to us

you do not hide from us the glory of God yet men will say so

and dart like bats into the lower depths

pretending the lid of the coffin is the sky

I will not deny, deny, deny

your dazzling enterpriseless enterprise

your emerald gleam in the shade

of all my days made and unmade your fugues;

infinitude I send this valentine to you

this white gold valentine seeped in clouds

the rainbow dissolve and the slow fade

in the rain weeping over the barren fields

where men have forgotten to sing to you to Him who made

you

shine

to yield to you forsaking instead the paradiso for the inferno

and where in golden fortitude at times

you break down,

emblematic, witness of God.

mary angela douglas 9 july 2021