Inundation

      In us is only this insistent surge
      Incapable of calming!
      It is ever-renewing and ever-alarming!
      Sweet as the winter's quickening
5     For Unforgotten Spring!
      Sweet as Summer's hungering
      For Autumn's quickened cooling...!
      All Airs all Objects all Elements conspire
      To re-invent Life as but a single Desire!
10    All fire-quick and heart-aloft
      As if to live were a speeded trance
      No Eye, no Heart, no Splendour could enchant
      To any, more docile, slowness than this:
      To race large eons into seconds, or hurl
15    Blooming minutes into aspiring words,
      Exploding Black Heaven with their own dear light!
      Challenging the Skies in innumerable Words!

 

From the collection "Ascent"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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