Water remembered has drowned the words we kept For words like winds orangely agitate against the hush And citron solace lashes each leaf's velvet To unpupiating pulp. Eyes locked in pupal locutions 5 Split the moany remainders of the day to syllables. Never in the best sinning you and I commanded would All the fallen chittered leaves again rehearse this rose. Filtered regrets distilled against the lingering rain 10 Wipe down the diamond sky, crashing cabriolets containing All the shivering incense of a pursuing mist Tracking the anchored package of intenser life Deep to its frissioned shelter, flaunting a sea Of snickering distractions to angle on a time 15 Purpure because unlamentable, part of the brinking etern. We were not shaped to finish, but extend Beyond intolerant time's staggered kisses Drunkenly laid on senses as full of hits as misses; 20 How can we kite to ecstasy who cannot drown in minutes? Filial lips will find us, ministering the dark, Cold angels to our natures, spurning the unloved dust, And in blazing passes touch us still unwarmed. 25 Is this excellence extempore a receding grace Made supremely visible by withdrawal alone? You are a man, bred for loving oceans to imbrue! Let not the bastard element dull the divine in you; So intermixed is our living sense with rarest wine 30 That heady jumbles of love and menace can come Confusing innocence with the sweetest and the worst.
From the collection "Hymns"
Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]
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