The Obliterating Unity of God
2009 October 29
I embrace you – this argument
of bent trees in darkening autumn
light, shadows against
your cathedral pillars, holy
echoes sounding of your reveler’s
Word as reverie. I want
similar things to Dream – want
what I kneel before to mean
the resistance, itself a stream
before dawn – light that does
not know me yet but
believes better of us still –
our hands clasped around this O
so your embrace destroys me
into remembering where you were
fire, and I was glad to walk
among those cattails
smoldering toward water.
I step in, bare branches gnarled
and on either bank
the need to know.
