(no subject)
You keep coming out of my chest
into visibility, singing songs,
telling tangled stories.
With one breath a universe whirls
into being. You wash the world.
You tighten the string around my finger.
But why am I so blessed,
with a Jacob and a Job on every side,
whose houses have been broken into
and their sweet-smelling linens stolen?
Now you lead a procession into the cemetery
as though it's a garden.
You shout, Rise and dance,
and they do, the ancient dead, the newly dead,
so happy to be out in the air again,
the graveyard looks like a marketplace
on a holiday.
I am not saying these things
to appear visionary and spiritual.
I have seen this happen in ways I cannot express.
Always test a high-sounding remark.
If someone claims, I have left all that,
see if his shirt is torn in the back.
Tell the word-men to quit talking
and listen to the grief a lover feels.
Be relentless in your looking,
because you are the one you seek.
into visibility, singing songs,
telling tangled stories.
With one breath a universe whirls
into being. You wash the world.
You tighten the string around my finger.
But why am I so blessed,
with a Jacob and a Job on every side,
whose houses have been broken into
and their sweet-smelling linens stolen?
Now you lead a procession into the cemetery
as though it's a garden.
You shout, Rise and dance,
and they do, the ancient dead, the newly dead,
so happy to be out in the air again,
the graveyard looks like a marketplace
on a holiday.
I am not saying these things
to appear visionary and spiritual.
I have seen this happen in ways I cannot express.
Always test a high-sounding remark.
If someone claims, I have left all that,
see if his shirt is torn in the back.
Tell the word-men to quit talking
and listen to the grief a lover feels.
Be relentless in your looking,
because you are the one you seek.