Without Benefit Of Virgil

      There, amid the wrong middle of this wood,
      Where God himself must stand and choose
      Or find himself unable, caught between good and good,
      Sweet songs that rise from the geese in the dawn
5     And travel without a quaver in the air
      Until they alight on some rich man's crowded lawn
      Or empty lot abandoned by all but the wind's stir
      Some ancient, contemptuous king or passionate
      Poverty-stricken man cries out his heart
10    And lays his head bare in the miserable dust
      In eternal revelation of his time-bound character
      Before the bawdy wind can close the gate.

 

From the collection "Unimagined Things"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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